covered on all sides by good tea; and this was done by the means of four pieces of board nailed to each other, making four sides, or a well for the chest, whereon good tea was spread, and also within two inches of the top, was drawn out. The good tea was called pi-cha, skin tea, or the skin or covering to the bad, which the Chinese called the belly. This method of packing singlo tea has long since been discontinued.

The bohea country is about twenty-five easy days journey from Canton. The singlo about forty. The hyson much the same.

Bohea usually comes to Canton at the cost of 9 to 11 tales the pecul.

Singlo and second hyson 14 to 19.
Hyson 30 to 38.
Congo, peko, and souchong, very

various.

⚫ To these prices must be added the charges of warehouse room, packing, the duties on exportation, and the seller's profit, in a country where money is often two per cent. per month, and seldom less than 20 per cent. per ann.

Bohea, Voo-yee, the name of the country.

Congo, or cong-foo, great or much care or trouble in the making or gathering the leaves.

Peko, pé-how, white first leaf. Souchong, sé-ow-chong, small good thing.

Lee-oo-ching, the name of a place.
Hoping, ditto.
Honan, ditto.
Ankoy, ditto.
Song-lo, ditto.

Hyson, he-tchune, name of the first crop of this tea.

Bing-min, name of the man who first made this tea,

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Loot-sien, true sort, is what really grows in the Loot-sien country. Some tea is planted near Loot-sien, that passes for that tea, and that is the case in all the countries.

Besides the teas before enumerated, many other teas are planted, as in the Honan country, and the quantities they produce cannot be easily ascertained; but, upon the whole, it is reckoned, that in ten parts, not above three are exported.

In 100 Chinese, it is reckoned forty only can afford to drink tea; the others drink water only. Many, 3 D

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when they have boiled their rice, put water into the tatche in which the rice was boiled, to which some grains always adhere; the water Joosens them, and is browned by the rice; that water they drink instead of tea.

The tea sent into Tartary is mostly green, perhaps in the proportion of

seven to two.

Old bohea is reckoned good by

the Chinese; in a fever they use it to cause perspiration, and put into it a little black or coarse sugar, with a little ginger.

Old hyson, one or two cups made strong, removes obstructions in the stomach, caused by overeating or indigestion. It is to be used, if a weight is felt, some hours after eating, and it will remove it.

USEFUL

List of Patents for new Inventions, granted in the Year 1802.

ALEXANDER Bryce, of Glas

gow, in North Britain, merchant; for a method of drying all kinds of yarn, whether linen, woollen, cotton, or silk, or composed of all or either of those articles, as also all kinds of cloth, or stuffs, commonly called piece goods. Dated January 2.

Thoinas Parkinson, of the parish of St. George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, gent.; for an apparatus to be applied to engines for conveying fluids therefrom. Dated January 2. Abner Cowell Lea, of the parish of Ashton, near Birmingham, Warwickshire, manufacturer; for a method of manufacturing the fur niture for umbrellas and parasols. Dated January 2.

Lewis James Armand Estienne, of Paul-street, near Finsbury-square, Middlesex, gent.; for an invention, communicated to him by a foreigner, of reducing human excrement into a powder, divested of all nauseous smell, preserving at the same time its fertilizing properties, in rendering land infinitely more productive and vegetative than any other manure hitherto discovered. Dated January 9.

Robert Brown, of New Radford, Nottinghamshire, lace - manufac

turer; for a method of manufac turing nets of all kinds. Dated January 16.

Joseph Lewis, of Brimscomb, in the county of Gloucester, dyer; for certain improvements in the art of dyeing, by means of a new method of cooling the cloth, and other piece goods (particularly in dyeing black); and a new mode of applying the fire for the purpose of heating the boiler, or other vessels, and which may be also applied to the heating of other boilers, or vessels, where heat is required. Dated January 16.

Joseph Hall, of Pitt-street, in the parish of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey; for a hammer for guns, pistois, and other fire-arms, which contains the prime, and effectually preserves it from damp and rainy weather. Dated January 16

Richard Willcox, of the city of Bristol, engineer; for improvements on the steam-engine, furnace or boiler, and air-pump. Dated January 23.

Paul de Philipsthal, of the Ly. ceum, in the Strand, gent; for an optical apparatus, whereby he is enabled to represent, in a dark space or scene, the human figures, in va rious characters, proportions, and sizes, and by which means painters and other artists may accurately enlarge or diminish with more cer

tainty and facility than has been known or done. Dated January 26.

James Sharples, of the city of Bath, gent.; for new-invented mechanical powers applicable to steam engines; part of which machinery may be applied to other useful purposes. Dated January 28.

Thomas Charles Baker, of Poplar, in the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, millwright; for vanes or sails for windmills. Dated January 28.

Joseph Barton, late of Old-street, in the parish of St. Luke, in the county of Middlesex, chemist; for a medicine which he denominates compound concentrated fluid vital air, of great use in the cure of putrid diseases, &c.; and another preparation, which he calls aerated preventive fluid, as a preventive from putrid infection, &c.; also acrated liquid balm, for preserving and beautifying the skin. Dated January 28.

Robert Dickinson, of Long-acre, in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, proprietor of Gowland's Lotion; for a new or improved method of fixing the straps of and to saddles, to which the girths are usually made fast or buckle. Dated February 6.

John Southey, lord Somerville; for a double-furrowed plough fit and proper for ploughing of land in this kingdom. Dated February 6.

Charles Mercie, of the city of Bath, music-master; for slides, which he calls air-slides, to be fixed to windows, doors, and partitions of all descriptions, for preventing the external air from entering rooms, carriages, &c. Dated February 6.

Henry Peimeck, and Robert Dun

kin, of the town of Penzance, in the county of Cornwall, gents.; for methods for improving the sailing and navigating of certain ships and vessels. Dated February 19.

Joseph Nelson, of Leeds, Yorkshire, clothier; for a method of making or manufacturing woollen cloth. Dated February 19.

Bryan Higgins, of the parish of St. Anne, Soho, Middlesex, doctor in physic; for an apparatus for heating air equally to any requisite degree, and methods of applying the air so heated with peculiar advantage, efficacy, and economy of the fuel, to the numerous purposes for which stoves and kilns have been heretofore employed. Dated February 19.

George Holland, of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, Middlesex, hosier; for a machine to be added to the stocking-frame, for the purpose of improving the manufacture, and expediting the manufacturing of fleecy hosiery, and various other kinds of hosiery. Dated February 23.

George Bodley, of Exeter, De vonshire, iron-founder; for a portable stove or kitchen for the purpose of dressing victuals. Dated February 27.

George Hodson, of the city of Chester, ash manufacturer; for a method of preparing or manufacturing fossil or mineral alkali, from various substances. Dated February 27.

Richard Pottinger, of the parish of Ealing, Middlesex, engineer; for an apparatus whereby persons riding in carriages may on occasions, and in circumstances of imminent danger, liberate themselves, and escape impending mischief, by

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freeing

freeing the horse or horses instantly from the carriage. Dated February 27.

John Lewis, of Lamb's-buildings, in the parish of St. Luke, Oldstreet, Middlesex, manufacturer; for a method of preventing accidents by a horse or horses drawing a carriage or carriages, Dated Feb. 27. Mr. John Donaldson, of the city of Bristol, glass manufacturer; for a method of making all kinds of glass in a more expeditious manner than hitherto attempted. Dated March 5. Mr. James Mitchell, the elder, and Mr. James Mitchell, the younger, of the hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall, in the county of Middlesex, rope-makers; for an improved method of manufacturing cables, hawsers, and other cordage. Dated March 9.

Obadiah Elliott, of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, coachmaker, for an eccentrical anti-labourist spring curricle bar, for one or more horses, upon a new and improved construction. Dated March 9.

Thomas Loud, of Hoxton, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, musical instrument maker; for improvements in the action and construction of upright piano-fortes. Dated March 9.

Christopher Wilson, of the Grange Walk, in the parish of Bermondsey, Surrey, tanner; for a method of making and obtaining a vacuum or vacuums whereby powers are gained or obtained applicable to the improvement of hydraulical, pneumatical, and mechanical machines, or engines, or any others where fluids, steam, or vapour, may be used or applied. Dated March 9.

Peter Litherland, of Liverpool, Lancashire, watch-maker; for a

mode of keeping musical instruments in tune, and of preserving the strings from breaking. Dated March 24.

John Williams, of Portsmouth, in the county of Hants, gent.; for a method or means of disengaging horses from carriages. Dated March 24.

James Ashworth, of Tottington, in the parish of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, dyer and colourman; for a method of making iron liquor for the use of dyers and printers. Dated March 24.

Sebastian Erard, of Great Marlborough-street, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, Middlesex, musical instrument-maker; for improvements in the musical instrument called a harp. Dated March

24.

Philip James Meyer, of Great Portland-street, Middlesex; for a machine to prevent danger to persons driving, or being in curricles, single-horse chaises, or other carriages, by horses being restive, breaking or running away with such carriages, or backing, in consequence of taking fright while harnessed thereto. Dated March 24.

Henry Grant, esq. of Americasquare, in the city of London; for a machine for the purifying and clarifying of water, whereby the most putrid or foul water may be rendered perfectly sweet and clean. Dated March 24.

Richard Frevithick, and Andrew Vivian, of the parish of Cambourne, Cornwall, engineers and miners; for methods of improving the construction of steam-engines, and the application thereof for driving carriages, and for other purposes. Dated March 24.

Edward Massey the younger, of
Stanley,

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