( we) 
learned traveller has obligingly permitted me to introduce 
here. - 
‘A Plant very like the Tea flourithed at this time on the fides 
and: the very teps of mountains, where the foil confifted of 
little more than fragments of {tone crumbled into a fort of 
coarfe earth by the joint action of the fun and rain. The 
~-Chinefe call this plant Cha-whaw, or Flower of Tea, on ac- 
count of the refemblance of one to the other; and becaufe its 
petals, as well as the entire flowers of the Arabian jeflamine, 
‘are fometimes mixed among the — in order to — 
their fragrance. — = 
s+ This plant, the Cha-whaw, is the Camellia Sefanqua of the 
botanifts, and yields a nut, from whence is exprefled an efcu- | 
lent oil equal to the beft which comes from F lorence. It is 
cultivated on this account in yvaft abundance; and is particu- 
larly valuable, from the facility of its. culture, in fituations fit 
for little elfe.” It is delineated on the oppofite page. 
As green Tea is by fome fufpeéted to have been cured on 
copper, they have attributed thé verdure to be derived from 
that metal (Srcr. VII); but, if: there were any . founda- 
tion for this fuppofition, the volatile alkali, mixed with an 
anfufien of fuch Tea, would detect the fess portion of copper, 
_by turning the infufion blue: ae 
* The hundredth part of a grain of 
= a fenfible blue-with volatile alkalies. 
= ‘The finett soperisl and bloom Teas fhewe 
copper, diffolved in a pint of liquor, firikes 
Neumann's Chemiftry, by Lewis, p. 62. 
d no fign of the preiente of this metal by 
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