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mutt alfo have no little influence. I have dried the leaves of 
fome European plants in the manner defcribed (Secr. VI.) 
which fo much refembled the foreign Tea, that the infufion 
made from them has been feen and drunk without fufpicion. 
In thefe preparations which I made, fome of the leaves re- 
tained a perfect curl, anda fine verdure like the beft green 
Tea; and others cured at the fame time were more like the 
__ bohea*. 
_ I would not, however, lay too much geek upon the refult 
af a few trials, nor endeavour to preclude further enquiries 
about a fubject which at fome future period may prove of 
more immediate concern to this nation. 
We might ftill try to difcover whether other arts, than are yet | 
- known here, are not ufed with Tea before its exportation from. 
China, to produce the difference of colour*, and flavour 3, 
peculiar to different forts. An intelligent friend of mine informs 
me, that in a fet of Chinefe drawings, in his pofleffion, repre- 
-fenting the whole procefs of manufacturing Tea, there are in one 
fheet the figures of feveral perfons apparently feparating the 
‘ A certain coda degree of heat preferved the verdure and flavour te 
thana Bay cadieceten. In the firft = it is — to repeat the roafting 
-oftener. 
* Infufions . fine ‘kes Teas do not differ a great deal in s cobiats from thofe of 
green. ‘To fpirit they equally impart a fine deep green colour. 
3 Tam informed by intelligent perfons, who have refided fome time at Canton, 
that the Tea about that city affords very little fmell whilt growing. The fame is 
obferved of the Tea plants in England ; and alf of the dried fpecimens from China, - 
‘We are not hence to conclude, that art alone conveys to Teas when cured the fmell 
ar to each kind ; for our vegetables, ne for 1 copied have. little or no 
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