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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 97

An illustration from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary, 1812, leaf 97
r a small price. It isscarcely necessary to observe, that thetea is of but a very middhng quality,which bears a proportion to the low pricethey require for it. They have another curious method,which the missionaries communicated, ofmaking the Hiuen-Tchaj or imperial tea, 68 CHINA, ITS COSTUME, into… … tt=5 4 ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 69 INK-MAKING. X HE invention of paper would have beenof little moment, if the Chinese had notdiscovered also a kind of ink adapted towriting upon it. The China, or Indian ink, is composedof lamp-black, which is made by burn-ing pine-wood, hogs-fat, and oil, thesmell…

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