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CHAP, coolers, and the whole beans picked from the bruifed, 

 y^^^-^if which laft are confumed in the colony : they are finally 

 put into cafks or barrels, of about three or four hundred 

 weight each, for exportation. 



I lhall only farther obferve, that in Surinam fome coffee 

 plantations produce above 150,000 pounds we-ight per 

 jannwn\ and that, as I have already mentioned, in the year 

 before our arrival no lefs was exported to Amfterdam 

 alone than 12,267,134 pounds of this valuable article, the 

 prices of which have fluctuated, from three-pence half- 

 * penny to eighteen pence ; but which, calculated at the 

 average price of eight-pence halfpenny, produces a yearly 

 income of not lefs than 400,000 pounds fterling ; (which 

 is no defpicable revenue) befides what goes to Rotterdam 

 and Zealand. ' ^ 



This is fufficient to prove that the cultivation of coffee 

 is highly worthy the attention of the planters : and as 

 for the virtues of this excellent berry, without entering 

 into particulars, 1 will only refer the reader to that highly- 

 approved pamphlet, entitled " A Treatife concerning the 

 Properties and Effe6ts of Coffee ; by Benjamin Mafely^ 

 M. D. Author of Obfervations on the Dyfentery of the 

 Weft Indies;" from which I cannot refift the temptation 

 of extra<5ting the following paffage " Baem fays, coffee 

 comforts the head and heart, and helps digeftion, 

 " Dodtor Willis fays, being daily drunk, it wonderfully 

 " clears and enlivens each part of the foul, and difperfes 

 « all the clouds of every function. The celebrated 

 , • , « Dodor 



