COFFEE-TREE. 
wards, the annual export from that island was 
rated at 60,000 pounds weight: in 1775, it 
had reached 440,000 pounds. The Jamaica 
planters are said to have discovered the art of 
cultivating, picking, and curing the berries, 
so as to make their Coffee equal to the growth 
of Arabia. 
Miller informs us, that " a curious gentle- 
mars, who resided in Barbadoes two years, 
told him, that 44 he never drank better Coffee, 
* ; in any part of the world, than what he made 
" from the fresh berries, which he gathered 
<4 himself, and roasted as he had occasion to 
" use them." This account," adds Miller, " is 
confirmed by trials with berries produced in 
our English stoves ; which make a better fla- 
voured liquor than the best Arabian Coffee- 
berries that can be procured in England." 
The Coffee-Tree having been transported to 
Europe, and to the possessions of Europeans, 
both in the East and West Indies, from Arabia, 
has been commonly supposed to be indigenous 
of that country : but it seems, from Mr. Brace's 
account, to have been originally brought from 
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