1 8 Memoir ypon Coffee. 



lo<T-house5, and defended them with a common stockade- 

 work: this place we called >Fort Clatsop, after a nation of 

 that name who were our nearest neighbours. In this coun- 

 try we found an abundance of elk^ on which we subsisted 

 principally during the last winter. We left Fort Clatsop on 

 the 27lh of March. On our homeward bound voyage, being 

 much better acquainted with the country, we were enabled 

 to take such precautions as in a great measure secured us 

 from the want of provision at any time, and greatly lessened 

 our fatigues, when compared with those to which we were 

 compelled, to submit in our outward-bound journey. We 

 have not lo5t a man since we left the Mandians ; a circum- 

 stance which I assure you is a pleasing consideration to me. 

 As I shall shortly be with you, and the post is now waiting, 

 I deem it unnecessary here to attempt minutely to detail the 

 occurrences of the last eighteen mouths. I am, 8cc. 

 Your affectionate brother, 



William Clark. 



Til. Extract of aMaimscr'tpt Memoir, Inj M. Paysse, upon 

 Coffee. Communicated hij M. Parmentier*. 



In 1S03 I wrote to M. Paysse, then professor of chemistry 

 in the Militarv Hospital for Students at Metz, requesting 

 to be informed if, during his stay among the Dutch, he 

 made any remarks or collected any information on the sub- 

 ject of coffee. His answer transmitted to me a very com- 

 plete memoir, in which was contained the liistory of that 

 grain ; the botanical characters of the tree w hich produces 

 it; us culture, preparation, and use, as a beverage; and, 

 lastlv, an analysis of it. 



The war, and mv bad state of health, not permitting me 

 to finish the work on which I was then engaged, and for 

 which I had applied to M. Paysse for assistance, I kept his 

 memoir for three years in mv port-fo!io. Having seen, 

 };i.iucver, that the subject is now occupvmg the attention of 



• Frmn Annahs de Chiinie, loai. lii. p. i96 



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