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pending dangei> if he perfifted in carrying this cruel plan 

 in execution. This at leaft had the effedl to end the dif- 

 agreeable converfation : when, in my turn, I added, 

 " Sir, permit me farther to put you in remembrance of 

 " thefe very troops you have juft mentioned, in regard to 

 their truly diftreffed fituation at the Cqfeepore Creek\ 

 while their furgeon is gaining gold watches and dia- 

 " mond rings by curing fafhionable difeafes among the 

 "gentry at Paramaribo.*" To which he replied, Fous 

 " etes un brave gargon and promifed to take my hints 

 into conlideration. 



I was now invited once more by Captain Mackneal to 

 fpend a few days on his coffee eftate, Sporkfgift; but 

 though I was prevented on this occafion from accepting 

 the invitation, I will take this opportunity to defcribe 

 that ufeful berry, which, not being a native of Guiana, it 

 is faid Was firft planted in Surinam by the Count de Neale, 

 though others afcribe it to one Hanjbach^ a fdver-fraith, 

 in 1720-. 



The coffee-berry is the produce of an elegant tree, 

 which is feldom allowed to grow higher than a man can 

 reach, in order to facilitate the gathering of it. The 

 bark of this tree is light brown, and the leaves like laurel, 

 having a beautiful polifh ; with thefe it is thickly co- 



* In 1554, the coffee berry firft came 

 to Conftantinople from Arabia.— About 

 the middle of the 16th century it was in- 



troduced In London; and in 1728, by 

 Sir Nicholas Laws, it was planted in the 

 ifland of Jamaica. 



vered. 



