184 ORD. X, Cymosee. COFPEA ARABICA) 
came to London, where this beverage had been previously intro- 
duced in the year 1652, when Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, 
brought from that country a Greek servant, of the name of Pasqua, 
who understood the method of preparing coffee, and first sold it in 
London in a house which he kept for. that purpose, in George-yard, 
Lombard-street. \. Eight years after this it contributed to the public 
revenue, by a duty of oe laid Bi _— oan made and’ 
sold here.* : 
The ginal consumption | of Golfée’s ity Europe suggested the idea’ 
of cultivating it for the advantage of commerce; and in this view’ 
the Dutch took the lead, and first planted it at Batavia in 1690 ;. and 
at Surinam in 1718. This example.was followed by the French at 
Cayenne, and in Martinico; nor were our Colonies neglected, for 
in 1732 it was cultivated in Jamaica, and patronized by act of par-’ 
liament. 
But whether from mismanagement, or from causes unavoidable,’ 
it is a lamentable truth, that our colonial coffee is of less estimation’ 
than that of other states, and the Mocha coffee is superior to all 
others. “We shall therefore present our readers with an account of 
the culture and management of Coffee, practised in Arabia Felix, 
and related by La Roque, who says, “ that the Coffee tree is there: 
“yaised from seed, which they sow in nurseries, and plant them 
“ out as they have occasion. They chuse for their plantations a 
“* moist shady situation, on a small eminence, cr at the foot of the 
* mountains, and take great , care to conduct from the mountains 
« jittle rills of water, in small channels; to the roots of the trees; 
“ for it is absolutely necessary that they should be constantly 
“‘ watered, in order to produce and ripen the fruit. For that pur- 
‘ pose, when they remove or transplant the tree, they make a 
‘trench three feet wide, and’ five feet deep, which they line or 
“ cover with stones, that the water may the more readily sink deep 
“< into the earth with which the trench is filled, in order to preserve 
“the moisture from eyaporating. When they observe that there 
© See Ellis, i. c. 
