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readily conceive the importance of such an ac- chap. 
quisition. The exhausted traveller, reduced by ■ 
continual fever, and worn by incessant toil, 
without a hope of any comfortable repose, ex- 
periences in this infusion the most cooling and 
balsamic virtues ■ : the heat of his blood abates ; 
his spirits revive; his parched skin relaxes; his 
strength is renovated. As almost all the dis- 
orders of the country, and particularly those to 
which a traveller is most liable, originate in 
obstructed perspiration, the medical properties 
of tea in this country may perhaps explain the 
cause of its long celebrity in China. Jerusalem 
is in the same latitude with Nankin, and it is 
eight degrees farther to the south than Pekin ; 
the influence of climate and of medicine, in 
disorders of the body, may therefore, perhaps, 
be similar. Certain it is, that travellers in China, 
so long ago as the nimh century, mention an 
infusion made from the leaves of a certain 
(l) " If, in the course of our travelling, 
" We cbanced to find 
A new repast, or an untasted spring-, 
AVe bless'd our stars, and thought it luxury. 
"This is the method of travelling in these countries; and these are 
its pleasures and amusements. Few, indeed, in comparison with the 
many toils and fatigues : fewer still, with regard to the greater perils 
and dangers that either continually alarm, or actually beset us." 
Shaw's Travels, Pref. p. wW. Lond. 1757. 
