for ten or twelve, and the Method of preparing it with these, is somewhat different from that of the _Chinese_; for the _Japonese_, having reduced their _Tea_ to a Powder, mix two or three Spoonfuls of it with a Cup of boiling Water, which they drink when moderately cool: Whereas, the _Chinese_ throw some of the Leaves into a Vessel of boiling Water, which, after it has imbibed the Force of the _Tea_, they drink, leaving the Leaves." But, in the seventh Chapter of the same Work, which treats of some of the Customs of the _Chinese_, the Author speaks in the following Manner: "When any one receives a formal Invitation to a Feast; the Day before, or several Days before, it is to be kept, the Master sends him a Kind of Ticket, desiring his Presence: When he is come to the House, and the usual Ceremonies past, he is set down in the first Hall, where he drinks his _Tea_; after which he is conducted to the Feasting-Room, which is not adorned with Carpets, which they never use, but with Pictures, Flowers, Vessels, and other antient Houshold Furniture." Though these Accounts may satisfy the Vulgar, yet they will not prove satisfactory to Physicians, who want to know, whether _Tea_ is an Herb, a Shrub, or a Species of Copse; for the two last quoted Authors differ from each other; since _Tulpius_ calls the _Chinese Tea_, "an Herb, with darkish, green, oblong Leaves, acuminated and crenated about the Edges, with fibrous Roots, divided into many small Shreds. Whereas, the Leaves of the _Japonese Tea_ are of a fainter green Colour, and of a more grateful Taste." But _Trigautius_ affirms, "that it is a Shrub of the Leaves, of which the celebrated _Cia_, of the _Chinese_ and _Japonese_, is prepared by Decoction." The former asserts, that the Herb _Tea_, grows not only in _China_ and _Japan_, but also in _Chiam_: The latter thinks it is to be suspected, that it is also produced in the _European_ Woods: But, as I shall afterwards accurately discuss these Points, I shall only here observe, from _Olearius_, that _Maffœus_, in _Tr. de Rebus Indicis_, affirms, that the _Japonese_, from a certain Plant, express an highly salutary Liquor, which they call _Chia_; and _Linschotanus_, in _Tr. de Insula Japoniæ_, tells us, that the Inhabitants of _Japan_ prepare a Drink called _Chaa_, from a certain Herb: But these Authors neither mention the Shrub, nor the Leaves, but unanimously assert _Tea_ to be an Herb. _Jacobus Bontius_, Physician in Ordinary to the Town of _New Batavia_, in the Island of _Java_, in the _East Indies_, in _Medic. Indor. Lib. 2. de Conserv. Valetud. Dialog. 6._ affirms, "that the Leaves of the small Herb, from which _Tea_ is prepared, resemble those of the _Daisy_ or lesser _Cousound_, and have small Incisions about their Edges." But since, in the subsequent Chapter, he affirms, that the Inhabitants of that Country, though brutally ignorant in every other Respect, have yet such an exact Knowledge of