304 A General View of TEA. 
other native produce. Did you ever hear that the filver mines 
of hanover, or thofe of saxony, were exhaufted for the fake 
of tea? — The hamburghers are great fugar-bakers, and many 
of them rich and luxurious ; they confume tea in confiderable 
quantities, for a city which contains only 118,000 inhabitants. 
On the contrary, where fugar is dear and fcarce, there tea will be 
drank very fparingly. — The Russians are chiefly fupplied with 
tea by their carravans from pekin in exchange for their furs : 
formerly it was of a very choice quality, but not fo at prefent. 
What little is brought to them by fea, they buy of the Danes, 
and pay for it in hemp, iron, and fuch like. — The poles, I be- 
lieve, drink it ftill lefs than the Russians. — Tea, I am told, is 
very little ufed in italy.- — And the Spaniards drink coffee and 
chocolate, the cocoa coming from their own dominions in Ame- 
rica. — The Portuguese alfo have both coffee and cocoa, from 
their own territories in maranhao, and ule very little tea. They 
import fome from macao, their fettlement in the river of canton, 
but it is confumed chiefly by the English, and other foreigners 
in Lisbon ; and tho’ gold is well known to be their natural 
produce, yet they are far from fquandering it away, on fuch 
articles as tea ; on the contrary, they, as well as the swedes, 
have a fumptuary law prohibiting the ufe of it in apparel. 
If we go into asia, or amongfl: the mahommedans of Eu- 
rope, we fhall find the Turks fipping their coffee • but it is 
produced within their own dominions. — The Persians drink 
coffee in fmall quantities, which they alfo receive from moca, 
and pay for it in their manufadures. They drink no tea, but 
they have their fherbets, their fweet waters, acids, infufions of 
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