tea in this country is generally tion of the juice of the leaves. much injured by long convey- After they have been dried in ance by sea, and has a moldy taste to one who has drunk it inits freshness. The individual coal fire, and incessantly stirred consumption of tea is much until a certaih point… … aday. Americans could hardly Fig, 2—BRIDGE AT AUGUSTA, MAINE, nal, and consists of Seven spans live upon such wages, and until other nations can raise tea|of mountains, and of which only ten or fifteen piculs are|of seventy-three feet each, one of sixty-three, and one of one for 12 cents a pound…
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