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among
the
Dutch
and
the
English,
who
imported
the
tea
also
to
their
colonies
in
North
America,
the
United
States,
and
Canada,
to
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
and
to
Australia,
likewise
to
Portugal.
Russia,
Sweden,
Nor-
way,
and
the coast
countries
of
middle
Europe
rank
next
Who
does
not
know
of
the
great
tea-riot
in
Boston
that
gave
the
signal
for
the
outbreak
of
the
Revolution,
and
shows
the
importance
tea
had
obtained
at
that
time
in
a
colonist's
household
?
WATER
was
believed
to
be
an
element
from
the
very
earliest
times
down
to
only
a
few
decades
ago.
Moses
mentions,
in
the
first
chapter
of
his
Genesis,
water
as
one
of the
first
created
elementary
bodies.
The
Hindoos
and
Egyptians
regarded
it
the
basis
of
most
of
the
other
bodies.
Among
the
Greeks,
Thales
600
B.
C.
defended
the
opinion
that
water
was
the
only
true
element,
and
that
all
other
bodies,
plants
and
animals
included,
were
formed
out
of
it.
Diodorus,
about
the
year
30
B.
C.,
suggested
that
rock-
crystal
developed
from
the
purest
water,
not
under
the
influence
of
cold,
but
under
that of the
heavenly
fire.
This
opinion
of
the
development
of
the
stone,
the
char-
acteristic
ingredient
of
which
is
silex,
is
affirmed
by
its
Greek
name,
krystallos,
or
ice.
Soon
others
got
up
and
declared
rock-crystal
was
not
formed
out
of
water
by
heat,
but
by
long-lasting