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vered, the branches diverging from near the furface of chap. 

 the earth to the fummit. The berries, which are oval, ^J^^^-^ j 

 are firft green, and gradually change their colour, till they 

 are ripe, when they acquire a bright crimfon hue, like 

 that of a cherry. In each of thefe berries are two kernels 

 refembling beans, lying fiat upon each other. Of thefe 

 a good tree is faid to produce three or four pounds weight 

 at each crop ; for this tree, like moft other vegetable pro- 

 ductions in this luxuriant climate, bears two crops every 

 year. 



To give the curious a better idea of this vifeful plant, 

 I prefent him with a fprig of it, copied from nature in the 

 annexed plate^-^m which the figure A refers to the wood, 

 where it was cut off; B is the upper fide of the leaf ; C 

 the lower fide of the fame ; D is the berry juft beginning 

 to change ; E the fame in full perfedion, being of a beau- 

 tiful crimfon ; and F the kernels or beans as they appear 

 when they are divefted of their hufk, and ready for ex- 

 portation. 



The buildings on a coffee eftate are, firft, the dwelling 

 houfe, w;J;iich is ufually fituated for pleafure near the 

 banks of a river; and for convenience adjoining to it 

 are eredted the outhoufes for the overfeer and book- 

 keeper, with itore-houfes and fmall offices : the other 

 neceffary buildings are a carpenter's lodge, a dock and 

 boat-houfe, and two capital coffee-lodges, the one to bruife 

 and feparate the pulp from the berries, the other to dry 

 them ; the reft coniift of negro-houfes, a ftable, hofi>ital, 



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