clarke’s travels. 
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virtues if the heat of his blood abates; his spirits revive; 
his parched skin relaxes; his strength is renovated. As al¬ 
most all the disorders of the country, and particularly those, 
to which a traveller is most liable, originate in obstructed per¬ 
spiration, the medicinal properties of tea in this country may 
perhaps explain the cause of its long celebrity in China. Je¬ 
rusalem is in the same latitude with Nankin, and it is eight de¬ 
grees farther to the south than Pekin : the influence of climate 
and of medicine, in disorders of the body, may therefore, per¬ 
haps, be similar. Certain it is, that travellers in China, so long 
ago as the ninth century, mention an infusion made from the 
leaves of a certain herb, named Sah, as a cure for all diseases ; 
which is proved to be the same now called Tea by European 
mations.f 
In the commotions and changes that have taken place in 
Jerusalem, the convent of St. Salvador has been often plun¬ 
dered and stripped of its effects. Still, however, the riches 
of the treasury are said to be considerable; but the principal 
part of its wealth is very properly concealed from all chance 
of observation. At present, it has a small library, full of 
books of little value, the writings of polemical divines, and 
stale dissertations upon peculiar points of faith. We examin¬ 
ed them carefully, but found nothing so much worth notice as 
the Oxford edition of Maundrell’s journey. This volume 
some traveller had left: the w orthy monks were very proud 
of it, although unable to read a syllable it contained. In the 
church, as well as in the chambers of the monastery, we no¬ 
ticed several pictures; all of these were bad, although some 
of them appeared to have been copied from originals that 
possessed greater merit. In the Pilgrims’ chamber, a printed ad- 
If, in the course of our travelling, 
--“ We chanced to find, 
A new repast, or an untasted spring, 
We 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 ac¬ 
tually beset us.” Shaw’s travels, pref. p. xvii. Lond. 1757 
| Leroy sereserve aussi le revent! qui provieot des mines de sel, et d’une herbs 
mi’ils boivent avec de l’eau chaude, dont il se vend une.gi;ande quantity dans toutes 
les villes, ce qui produit degrandes sommes. On l’appelle sah; et c’est un arbrisseaii 
qui a plus de feuilles que le grenadier,'et dont 1’odeur est un pen plus agreable, mais 
qui a quelque amertume. On fait bouillir de 1’eau. on la verse sur cette feuille et 
cette bois«on les guerit de toutes sortes de maux.” (Anciennes Relations de deux 
Voyageurs Mahometans, &c. p. 31. Paris, 1718 ) Eusebius Renaudot, the learned 
French translator of the original Arabic manuscript of these travels, in the notes 
which be added to the work, proves the plant here mentioned to have been the tea 
tr^e called chah by the Chinese, and by other oriental nations tcha Catai'i, or sini; 
the tcha of CataY, orof China. (Ibid, p .'222.) “ Notre auteur,” says he,“est le plus 
ancien, et presque le seul de Arabes qui ait parle de la hoisson Chinoise, si commune 
pr6sethment danstoute l’Europe, et coiinue sous Ie nomde the.” 
