( wes) 
III. There has alfo been imported a fort of Tea, in balls, of a 
different form from any of the preceding, made up into 
_ cakes or balls of different fizes, by the Chinefe called Poncul- 
tcha. | 
: a The largeft kind of this cake Tea, that I have feen, weighs 
about two ounces; the infufion and tafte refemble thofe of good — 
‘bohea Tea. ae = 3 
11. Another fort, which is a kind of green Tea, is called 
tio té: it is rolled up in a round fhape, about the fize of peas, 
and fometimes as large as a nutmeg. | 
111. The {malleft kind done in this form is called gun-powder 
Tea. | 3 : 
_ Iv. Sometimes the fucculent ‘Tea leaves are twifted into 
_ cords like packthread, about an inch and a half or two inches 
long ;_ and | ufually three of thefe are tied together at the ends 
by different-coloured filk threads. Thefe refemble little bavins, _ 
one of which might fuffice for tea for one perfon. J have feen » 
them both of green and bohea Tea. 
‘The Chinefe likewife prepare an extract from Tea, which . 
they exhibit as a medicine diffolved in a large quantity of water, 
and afcribe to it many powerful effects in fevers and other 
diforders, when they with to procure a plentiful fweat. This 
extract is fometimes formed into {mall cakes, not much broader 
than a fixpence, fometimes into rolls of a confiderable fize. 
_- That there is only one fpecies of Tea tree, has already been 
me ttioned (Secr. J.) from which all the warieties of Tea are 
procured. 
