656 Of the Excellent Qualities of Coffee. 



It will be in vain that the- laws are repealed which 

 laid restrictions on the free use of coffee, as long as the 

 great mass of the people remain ignorant of its excel- 

 lent qualities ; they will be little disposed to substitute 

 it in the place of another beverage, to which long habit 

 has given them an attachment. 



As long as coffee shall continue to be made accord- 

 ing to the method generally practised in England, I 

 shall have no hope of its being preferred to tea ; for its 

 qualities are so inferior when prepared in that way that 

 it is hardly possible that it should be much liked. 



The utensils which I have recommended for making 

 coffee, though some of them are sufficiently simple to 

 be afforded at a low price, yet, as they are contrived 

 to be used with spirit lamps, or with portable furnaces 

 which must be heated with charcoal, they are not well 

 calculated for the use of those persons who inhabit the 

 rooms in which they cook their victuals ; and of many 

 others who, though they may have separate kitchens, 

 may not find it convenient to use spirit lamps and 

 portable furnaces. 



For the use of such persons, the coffee-pots repre- 

 sented by the Figs, i and 2 may be made to answer 

 perfectly well, merely by taking away the perforated 

 hoops on which they stand. For, when these are taken 

 away, these coffee-pots may be heated over a common 

 chimney fire just as any common coffee-pot is now 

 heated. 



For very poor persons who cannot afford to buy 

 a coffee-pot, I shall recommend a very simple contri- 

 vance, by means of which coffee may be made, and 

 even in the highest possible perfection. I have often 

 made use of this contrivance in making my own break- 



