"A cup of tea could not be got for love or money in Gweedore, when Lord George Hill came there.

You might as well have asked for a glass of Tokay." Now they use and abuse it in the most deleterious way imaginable.

They buy the tea at exorbitant rates, often at five shillings a pound, and usually on credit, paying a part of one bill on running up another, put it into a saucepan or an iron pot, and boil, or rather stew, it over the fire, till they brew a kind of hell-broth, which they imbibe at odd moments all day long! Oddly enough, this is the way in which they prepare tea in Cashmere and other parts of India, with this essential difference, though, that the Orientals mitigate the astringency of the herb with milk and almonds and divers ingredients, tending to make a sort of "compote" of it.

Taken as it is taken here, it must have a tremendous effect on the nerves.

Mr.Olphert thinks it has had much to do with the increase of lunacy in Ireland of late years.