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Winters even in Tartary itfelf. 2. The 
fame is the Reafon the Leaf and Flower 
afford little or no Smell before they are 
roafted ; for the volatile effential Oil or Salts, 
being wrapped up or entangled in this Juice, 
are prevented flying off, as in odoriferous 
Plants and Flowers. 3. The Exudation or 
Difcharge of this Juice by repeated Roaft- 
ings, leaves the Leaf porous, fo that if not 
clofe kept in clean Veffels, it would not 
only lofe its own fine Flavour and odoriferous 
Parts, but imbibe others in their room. 
Hence Run-T?# wrapped up in Paper is gene- 
rally naught (if ever it was tolerable) having 
not only loft its own pleafant Flavour, but 
got a bad one from its being carelefly put 
up. But even this has its Advantage, as it 
helps to conceal a double Cheat ; for moft 
of what Smugglers import to us from the 
Dutch , is either their damaged Tea , which 
they could neither fell nor ufe, or it has been 
fligfitly infufed and drawn in the Cojfee-houfes 
in Holland , and roafted and rolled again. 
4. Tho* the roafting does expel a great Part 
of the clammy Juice, yet it is not fo fully ex- 
uded, but that thofe of exquifitely fenfible 
Nerves find ftill enough of it left to give 
them 
