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Tlie firft, fays Mr. Bradley, is bought by the Turks Merchants, 
who go up into the Country where it grows, and there contradfc 
for the Fruit of Gardens, or fo many Trees as they have occafion 
for, (as our Fruit- mongers do for Cherries in Kent,) When it is 
gathered and prepared, they bring it upon Camels down to Juda, 
a Port at the bottom of the Red Sea (which is the Port of Grand 
Cairo) to be tranfported to Sue%y from thence by Land about 
twenty Miles to Grand Cairo, and fb down the Nile to Alexandria, 
where it is fliipped off for Ajia and Europe. 
There commonly comes thus every Year to Egypt, from fixty 
to feventy thoufand Bales of Coffee, which may contain one with 
another, about three hundred Weight each. 
The BaJhanjj of Cairo fets a Price upon it according to its Abun- 
dance or Scarcity j and the People there make ufe of it as Money 
in the Market, counting fo many Berries to an Afper or Flalf- 
penny, as we may call it, in proportion to the Value or Price 
fettled by the Bajhanx. 
But that Sort which we have under the Chara6ter of India 
Coffee, is bought at Bettlefukere, where the Englijh, Dutch, and 
French of late Years fend up Fadors to buy the faid Commodity, 
and bring it on Camels to Mocca, from whence it is fhipped for 
Europe, by which means (altho* it is obliged to pafs the Line 
twice) what we now have that Way is little inferior to Turkey, 
which was formerly the Refufe, or what the Turks left at Bettle^ 
The immenfe Quantity of this Fruit, continues Mr. Bradley, 
which is yearly exported from this one Country to other Parts of 
the World, is almoft incredible ; which, as we are informed, is 
computed to be about a million of Bulhels, one Year with an- 
other 5 and, tho’ it may feem unreafbnable to believe, that this 
Country alone fliould produce it in fo great abundance, (confi- 
dering how fmall a Quantity can be gathered from each fingic 
Tree) yet with as much Surprize we may admire how it is 
poffible, that even the Number of Bufliels I have mentioned, 
fliould be fufficient to anfwer the vafl: Demand for it, fince it is 
certain, that, befides the general Efteem it has gained all over 
Europe, it is not lefs requefted throughout Africa and Ajia to their 
utmoff Bounds. 
Fdence we may reafonably conje(Ture, fays he, what vaft Riches 
muff be amafs’d by thefe Arabs, feeing they are the Proprietors of 
this Commodity, and thereby command fb great a Part of the 
Wealth of the moff opulent Countries. 
Monfieur 
