Identifier: chinainseriesofv3to4allo (find matches)
Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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now laid upon the plate, and turned over by means oia brush, with a rapidity sufiicient to prevent their being scorched, while they are enduringa considerable degree of heat. When they begin to curl, they are swept off the hearth,and spread out upon a table covered with paper, or some other smooth and fine-texturedsubstance. One set of attendants at the table proceed to roll the leaves between theirhands, while another, with large fans, are employed in reducing the temperaturesuddenly, and thereby accelerating the requisite curling of the tea. The heaps aresubmitted a second, and even a third time, to the same process, until the manufacturersconsider that they are perfectly cooled and properly curled. Coarse kinds, that is,refuse from the two last gatherings, being filled with stronger fibres, and possessing a bitterflavour, are exposed to the steam of hot water, previously- to being thrown upon theheated hearth ; and if the artist be skilful, their appearance and quality may both be
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^ 1 ^ » MOUTH OF THE KIVEK CUIN-KEANG. 13 materially improved. For some months, the dried tea remains in baskets m the store-house of the grower; after which it is once more exposed to a gentle heat, before beingcarried to market. An obvious distinction exists between the farmer, or grower, and the manufacturer: theformer separates the respective qualities with the utmost care, and disposes of them, in thatselected manner, to the manufacturer, either at his own house, or in the most convenientmarket; the latter removes his purchases to his private factory, and there, taking certainmeasures from each heap, mixes them together, in proportions producing the exact qualityhe wishes to give each particular class, or number of chests; the farmer therefore isa separator—the manufacturer, a concentrator. And now the process of plantingrearing, gathering, drying, separating, and mixing being completed, it only remains topack the preparation into chests, and tread it down sufficiently; in thi

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