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ment till the liquor foams, in which ftate it is prefented to the 
company, and fipped while warm’. From what Du Halde 
relates, this method is not peculiar to the Japanefe, but is alfo 
ufed in fome provinces of China ’. 
The common people, who have a coarfer Tea (Seer. VI. 111.) 
boil it for fome time in water, and make ufe of the liquor for 
common drink. Early in the morning the kettle, filled with 
water, is regularly hung over the fire for this purpofe, and the 
Tea is either put into the kettle inclofed in a bag, or, by means 
of a bafket of a proper fize, preffed to the bottom of the veffel, 
that there may not be any hindrance in drawing off the water. 
The Bantsjaa Tea (Secr. VI. 111.) only is ufed in this manner, 
whofe virtues, being more ans would not be fo eos ex- 
tracted by infufion. 
And indeed Tea is the common beverage of all the labouring 
people in China: one fearcely ever fees them reprefented at 
work of any kind, but the Tea pot and Tea cup appear as 
their accompaniments. Reapers, threfhers, and all who work 
out of doors, as well as within, have thefe attendants >, 
To make Tea, and to ferve it in a genteel and graceful man- 
ner, is an accomplifhment, in which people of both fexes in 
Japan are inftructed by mafters, in the fame manner as Europeans 
‘are In dancing, and other branches of polite education. | | 
* An inferior kind of Tea i is infufed, aa drank in the Chinefe manner. Secr. 
VI. 11. and Seer. EX. 1. 
* Hiftory of China, Vol. IV. p.22.  ~ 
3 In public roads, and inall places of much eae in Japan , and even in the mid _ 
of fields and frequented woods, Tea booths are ereéted; as moft travellers drink a 
{carcely any thing elfe upon the road. Kampfer’s Hiftory of Japan, by Scheuchzer, — 
Fol. Vol. Il. p. 428. pe ee 
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