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ill ill-grounded notion, for the berries, as well as the trees, being naturally Hunted 

 in their growth in moil parts of Arabia, they have but little pulp, and are very ealily 

 -dried in that warm climate, where a few days fun generally compleats the work, 

 without being at the trouble of ftriping them of any part of their more juicy 

 coats before hand : but tho' I am fatisfied the Turkey coffee receives no addition 

 from any peculiar method of drying it, I am equally convinced that great quan- 

 tities of that produced in the woody parts of Jamaica, where the berries are large 

 and fucculent, and the feeds lax and clammy, are greatly prejudiced by the methods 

 ufed there ; fuch berries mould be undoubtedly ftriped of a great part of the pulp, 

 and the feeds carried down to the low- lands, where the heat is much greater and 

 more conftant, to be dried ; and not left foaking in their clammy juices, to dry but 

 flowly in a damp air, as they generally do in many parts of that Ifland ; but this 

 is no prejudice to the fale of it among the northern purchafers, who generally look 

 upon the largeft and fatteil grain as the beft, nor do they chufe it by any other marks 

 than the plumpnefs of the feeds, and a frefh colour which generally is a blueifh- 

 pale in new coffee. 



Such as have large coffee-walks, fhould be provided with a convenient bar- 

 bahie, or platform, to dry thefe feeds more commodioufly upon ; and I think 

 it would be well worth while to try whether fweating would deftroy any of the 

 clamminefs peculiar to the feeds of the larger berries j but thefe mould be always 





pulped and dried as foon as pomble ; nor 



do I imagine 



but the eafe and fpeed 



whereby they might be dried in the low-lands, would be a fufficient recompence for 

 the trouble of carrying them there, as they are picked from the trees. 

 . After the fruit is well dried, it muff be hufked, and the feeds cleared from all 

 the outward coverings, to fit and prepare them for the market. This is generally 

 done in Jamaica by pounding the dried berries lightly in large wooden mortars, until, 

 after a long continued labour, both the dried pulp and inward membranous coverings 

 are broke, and fall to pieces among the feeds : The whole is then winnowed, cleared, 

 expofed afrefh to the fun for fome days, and then cafked for the market. But the 

 Arabians, after having dried their coffee fufficiently on matts, fpread it on an 





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floor, and brake off the covering by palling a large weighty roller of fome heavy 



wood or (tone to and fro upon it, and when the hufks are well broke in this manner, 

 it is winnowed and expoied to the fun a-new, until it is very well dried ; for other- 

 wife it is apt to heat on board the mips, and then it lofes all its flavour. 



The drink prepared from the feed of this plant is now generally ufed all over 



Europe, and many parts of Afia and America : it is generally efteemed as an excel- 



nt ftomachic, and ftrengthner of the nerves ; and peculiarly adapted for ftudious 



And fedentary people. ■ . . 



The plants are propagated by the feeds, and, to raife them fuccefsfully, the whole 

 berries mould be fown foon after they are gathered from the trees ; for if they be kept 

 but a fhort time out of ground, they are apt to fail : but when the plants rife about 

 five or fix inches above the earth, if double, (as they generally are) they mould be 

 feparated, which is done by drawing one or both, parting the roots, and planting them 

 again in feparate beds. When the young plants are removed from a bed, or from under 

 the parent-tree where they generally grow in great abundance, great care mould be 

 Jakei? not to break or injure the roots, and to preferve the earth about them until 

 they are replanted j for if the fibres are expofed to the air, and allowed to dry, they 

 are very fubjecl: to perifh, which is the reafon they have not this beautiful tree more 

 common in the gardens about the lower lands of Jamaica, where very few tranf. 



plants of the kind thrive, being,generally pulled up very bare, the layers laid-by 

 commonly for thirty or forty hours afterwards, and then carried a confiderable diftance 

 in the heat of the fun : but fuch as would have 'em profper well, fhould be careful 

 to procure plants that are well fupplied with mould from their native beds -, or to 



raife them immediately from the feeds. *\y:A 



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