( II ) 
Tsjaa, and is often too coarfe to be dried in 
Pans over the Fire, after the Chinefe Man- 
ner ; but being for the Vulgar, they prepare 
it any how. The longer this is kept, the 
better it is ; its Virtues being fixt in the grofs 
Leaves, are not fo eafily loft, either by 
being expofed to the Air, infufed, or boiled ; 
but the other Sorts fuffer greatly by any of 
the three. 
CHAP. III. 
Of the Preparation of the gathered 
T e a-Le AF. 
W HEN the Leaves are gathered, they 
are brought to the Work-houfe to be 
roafted, the fame Day, over a Fire in an 
iron Pan ; for if they lie long, or be laid 
on large Heaps, or be kept over Night, they 
would heat, turn black, and lofe much of 
their Virtue ; and if they do heat at any 
Time, they prefently fan them, and fpread 
them thin on the Ground to cool them. 
The Roafers put feveral Pounds of the Leaves 
into the Pan at once, which is heated, that 
the Leaves, tho’ turgid and juicy, when 
put in, yet foon crack at the Edges of the 
Pan : And that they may be throughly and 
equally 
