1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

WATER.

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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