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they turn them all out, and roaft them again, 
to take out any remaining Moifture, or what 
they may fince have imbibed. 
As foon as the Tea is cooled, after this 
lafl Roafling and Curling, the Chinefe put it 
up in Boxes of coarfe Tin , which are inclpfed 
in wooden Chefls or Cafes of Fir, all the 
Chinks whereof are carefully flopt with Pa- 
per, that the Air of thofe Climates may not 
diffipate its extream fubtile and volatile Parts y 
and in this Manner it is imported to us. Thefe 
Tubs or Chefls, one with another, contain 
about a hundred and twelve Pounds of Tea 
a-piece. The common People of "Japan 
keep their own Tea in large earthen Pots, 
with narrow Mouths. But the Emperor 
has his kept in MatJubos y which is a fine 
kind of Porcelane Pots or VefTels, wrecked 
up from among the Sea Rocks, near the 
Ifland Formofa , where once the rich and 
flourifhing Ifland Mauri flood, which was 
long ago fwallowed up by an Earthquake ; 
here was the befl Earth, and the moll in- 
genious People of the World, for making 
the finefl and richefl Porcelane. Thefe Vet- 
fels thus fifhed up, are the Emperor's Pro- 
perty, and fold at mofl extravagant Rates, 
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