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Many perfons fay, that coffee is not wholefome, unlefs it is made 

 bright and clear before it be drank ; but this, I think, is of no 

 confequence, becaufe I am well convince I that the particlci of 

 coftee, (excepting the oil and falts, which I have before mentioned 

 to be contained in it,) are of fo hard and inflexible a nature, that 

 they never can be introduced into the fyftem of our bodies. 



1 have oftentimes endeavoured to bring coffee beans to a ftate 

 of growth and vegetation, but herein I never could fucceed : whe- 

 ther this was, becaufe they had been kept too long, or whether, 

 that at the place of tlieir growth, they had been over dried, to- 

 facilitate their exportation to diftant countries, whereby the juices 

 which Ihould iiave nouriOied the young plant were dried away, 

 I cannot pretend to fay. 



I have feveral times placed coffee beans in a clean glafs under 

 water, without finding any alteration in the colour of them or of 

 the water, but when they were fo placed that part of them was 

 above the furface of the water, then both the cofFee-beans and the 

 water became of a grafs green colour. 



I formerly thought that thefe coffee beans were produced by 

 fowing them annually in the manner of our peafe and beans in 

 Europe, but I have been lately informed by a Gentleman who has 

 travelled in the Eaft, that they are the feed or fruit of a tree which 

 grows to about the fize of our lime trees.* 



* The cofFee-tree is a native of Arabia, from whence in the laft and prefent centuries 

 it has been cultivated both in the Eafl: and Weft Indies, but the Mocha coffee is ftill in 

 the greateft efttmation. 



