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believe all the People of E^g/a^d one with another do 
not fpend five Pounds each. 
Coffee when roafted lofes about a fourth part ; then 
there is fpent about fifty two Ton and a half of roaft« 
cd Coffee, which makes 117600 Pound or i88i5oo 
Ounces or is^ja^oo Drachms, which if there be 
Eight Millions of People, it is not two Drachms or half 
a pint of Coffee a piece for a Year, How little is 
this Trade when thus confidered^ and how greatly may 
it be improved, although we fpend as many Tuns in 
half a Year, as it has been Years with us. Befides 
what we ure;,we fend a great deal abroad, and I doubt 
not but in Ihort time the gain of what we fend abroad 
will pay the firft coft of all we (ball fpend at home, 
and I believe one of the beft ways to make advantage 
of Foreign Trade is to ufe fuch Wares much at home, 
and that will teach all we trade with to follow our 
Example 5 it does thus in Silks, Calicoes, Pepper, To- 
bacco, and feveral or her things. 
Furthermore Coffee his greatly increafed the Trade 
of Tobacco and Pipes^ ir ^rthen di(hes. Tin wares, 
News-Papers, Goals; Candies. Sugar, Tea, Choco- 
late and whatnots Coffee-houfe makes all (orts of 
Pepple fociable, they improve Arts, and Merchandize, 
and all other Knowledge 5 and a worthy member of 
this Society ^now departt^d) has thought that Coffee- 
houles have improved ufeful knowledge very much^ 
June 14th 1699, 
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