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Tea: Its Mystery and History

Tea: Its Mystery and History

by Samuel Phillips Day

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Author
Day, Samuel Phillips, 1833-1916
Title
Tea, Its Mystery and History
Credits
Produced by Charlie Howard and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
Subject
Tea
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 59170
Release Date
March 31, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TEA ITS MYSTERY AND HISTORY.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.NOTES ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.
  4. 4.EXTRACT FROM Mr. LO FONG LOH’S JOURNAL.
  5. 5.TEA ITS MYSTERY AND HISTORY. — CHAPTER I. LEGENDARY ORIGIN OF THE PLANT.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION OF TEA INTO ENGLAND.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. APPRECIATION OF THE LEAF.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. THE PLANT BOTANICALLY CONSIDERED.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. HISTORY OF THE TEA TRADE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE COLOURING OF THE LEAF.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE BEVERAGE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE “DRINK OF HEALTH.”
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. THE VIRTUES OF THE LEAF.
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. A CUP OF TEA.
  15. 15.Transcriber’s Notes

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