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for Egypf and Turkey, made it ftill dearer than it would have 
been. 
And indeed there is fo great an Alteration in the Price of this 
Commodity, that it is eafy to perceive there never was (o great a 
Confumption of it as at prefent j for the Bohar of Betelfaguay, 
weighing about 750 Pounds, which twenty Years ago might have 
been had for ten or twelve Pieces of Eight at moft, cofts now 
fifteen, and fometimes more. 
From Betelfaguay the Coffee is carry ’d to Mocca by Camels ; 
and the Author tells us in another Letter, that that Town itfelf 
is not very confiderable ■ but that fince the Europeans have found 
the Way into the Red Sea, the Trade of it is very much im- 
proved. It contains about ten thouland Inhabitants, the greatefl: 
Part Mahometans , with fome Armenians and fe^s, which laft 
dwell in a Part of the Town by themfelves, and make there but a 
very mean figure. 
Tfhe Relations of all thefe Authors put together, will, 1 hope, 
be fufficient to Ihew both how the Trade of Coffee is carry’d on 
in the Country of Temen, alfo by what means it fpreads itfelf 
from thence to all other Parts 5 and I cannot finifh this Article 
better than by Mr. Houghtons Obfervations concerning what he 
calls the political Ufes of Coffee in England. 
I am told, fays he, that our three Kingdoms fpend about an 
hundred and twenty Tun a Year, whereof England fpends about 
feventy Tun, which, at fourteen Pounds per Tun, (a middle 
Price now-a-days) will amount to 2058(5 Pound Sterling; and 
if it were to be all fold in Coffee-Houfes, it would reach treble, 
<51740 Pounds, which, at ten Pounds a Head, will find Employ- 
ment for 1 74 Perfons j altho’ I believe all the People in England, 
one with another, do not fpend five Pounds each. 
Coffee, when roafted, lofes about a fourth Part then there 
is fpent about fifty-two Tun and an half of roafted Coffee, which 
makes ii7<5oo Pounds, or i 88 i< 5 oo Ounces, or 152.52800 
Drachms j which, if there be eight million 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 confider’d ; and how greatly may 
it be improved, altho’ we fpend as many Tuns in half a Year as 
it has been Years with us ? 
Befides what we ufe, we fend a great deal abroad 5 and I doubt 
not but in a fliort time the Gain of what we fend abroad will pay 
the firfl Coif of all that we 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 
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