As I have before compared the _Chinese_ with the _European_ Regimen, so I should here institute the Comparison between their Manners and Dispositions, if _Barclay_ had not already executed that Design with great Judgment and Accuracy: Only I must observe, that their Cunning surpasses our Prudence, and that their Fraud sufficiently evinces their Inclination to deceive us. In a word, Cunning, Avarice, and Lying, are the distinguishing Characteristicks of the _Asiatics_, who yearly defraud the _Europeans_ of such immense Sums of Money for _Teas_. As _Hippocrates_ spared no Pains to remove and root out the _Athenian_ Plague, so I have used the utmost of my Endeavours to destroy the raging epidemical Madness of importing _Tea_ into _Europe_ from _China_; since I have demonstrated, that the _Chinese Tea_, and the _Chamelæagnus_, or _Myrtus Brabantica_, are Plants of the same Species. Let such, therefore, as are unacquainted with _Botany_, cease to use _Chinese Tea_, and in its Room substitute our _European Chamelæagnus_. Tho' I have not Authority sufficient to force my Opinions upon others, yet let me perswade my Countrymen to use _Betony_, which, as _Antonius Musa_ informs us, cures no less than forty Disorders, instead of the _Chinese Tea_, which is without Smell, corrupted by the Length of the Voyage, and destitute of the Qualities it is possessed of in _Asia_: Nor do I in the least doubt, but the _European Betony_ would happily cure those Disorders, for which the _Chinese_ recommend their _Tea_. The Physicians of _China_ are indeed to be commended for curing Diseases by Abstinence from Meat and Drink, and the Use of simple Decoctions, or other similar Things; because Nature delights in Simplicity, is contented with little, and overpowered by a Farrago of compound Medicines. If I should be laughed at for my Opinions, I shall comfort myself with this Reflection, that I have always had so sacred and inviolable an Attachment to Truth, that I have chearfully gone whithersoever she led me; so that I may, with a few Variations, put a Close to this Work, in the Words of _Cicero_, in _Academ. Quest. Lib. 4._