THE COFFEE-TRBB, 
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of the juice of the sogar-cane lias not escaped the atten- 
tion of English physicians, and many a weak-breasted 
patient, instead of coughing and freezing at home over 
what is ironically termed a comfortable fireside, now 
spends his winter in the West Indian Islands, chewing 
GENERAL FBASEIt's OJlTEe KffTATE AT RANOBODDE, tEVLON, 
the sweet cane and enjoyinj3f in Jannary a genial warmth 
of seventy-two degrees in the shade. 
The monntain regions of Enarea and Caffa, which the 
readefj on consulting a map of Africa, will find situated 
to the south of Abyssinia, are most probably the countries 
where the coffee-tree was first planted by Nature, as it 
