As it got cheaper, tea also spread rapidly to the working classes. By 1800, as foreigners remarked, it was the new national drink. By 1900 the average tea consumption per person in Britain was a staggering 6 lbs (3 kilograms) a year. In 1809 the Swede Erik Gustav Geijer comment: Next to water, tea is the Englishman’s proper element. All classes con­sume it . . . in the morning one may see in many places small tables set up under the open sky, around which coal-carters and workmen empty their cups of delicious beverage. –A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor How does the source extend the information MacGregor presents? It gives a firsthand account confirming that members of all social classes drank tea. It explains how many pounds of tea the British drank each year. It cites a statistic to illustrate how tea was rapidly spreading to the working classes.