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liave mod salts, and confequently require the lefs fugar. The 
fkilful grocer mixes various kinds of tea, and makes his fortune 
by pleafing your palates ; why fhould not you make experi- 
ments upon our own herbs, for the good of your country, un- 
patented and without reward ? I dare fay, if you try, you will 
make fome very useful difcoveries. 
I was once let into a secret, which I have now the liberty 
of divulging, that by the help of fome of the 'fined: cowfiips, 
fuch a flavor was given to tea, as enraptured the fenfes of all 
the fined: ladies in town. We know that a liquor called cow- 
flip wine is made of this flower, which is agreeable in tafle, and a 
ftrong foporific : a fmall quantity of cowflip flowers, with fome 
well-chofen herbs of our own growth, might alfo make a de- 
licious liquor. A certain fpecies of tea, which was brought 
from pekin, by the Russian carrivans, of which hardly any is 
to be procured now, was in the highefl: efteem ; but I never 
could difcover any excellence it pofiefied above other tea, ex- 
cept that of the cowflip flavor. For the reafons afligned in my 
letter on the growth of tea, you may eafily conclude how very 
much fome kinds of tea excell others. 
Tho’ I am no friend to a luxurious fuperfluity, yet in hopes 
to abolifli the ufe of tea, I would have it prefented on a 
falver with glafles of cold water, milk and water, lemonade, 
and fuch like : for my own part, I like to sip thefe rather than 
tea: and I find my fpeech is as voluble, and my ideas flow as 
brifk, by the force of a cold liquor, as by a hot one. 
Let me repeat my requefl: very seriously, that you will ex- 
ert your fkill and induftry, to make the difcovery of fome 
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