COFFEE-TREE. 
ball, keeps them, as they say, in strength and 
spirits during a whole day's fatigue, better than 
a loaf of bread or a meal of meat. If this be 
admitted as fact, we must regret that the use 
of Coffee is not better understood in the most 
enlightened nations of Europe, where there seems 
abundant necessity for some extraordinary suc- 
cedaneum to supply the alarming deficiency of 
those articles in our ordinary food ! This is a 
serious subject, and experiments may be worth 
trying. 
The use of Coffee is said to have been intro- 
duced into Arabia, from Persia, only about 
the middle of the fifteenth century: from 
whence it soon reached Mecca, Medina, Grand 
Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo ; and, at length, 
in 1554, became known at Constantinople. 
Even the Venetians, notwithstanding the prox- 
imity of their dominions, and their great trade 
to the Levant, do not appear to have been ac- 
quainted with it for more than half a century 
afterwards. 
Public Coffee-Houses were first established 
in France in the year 1671 5 when they soon 
became 
