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to follow our Example. It does thus in Silks, CallicoeSj Pepper, 
Tobacco, and feveral other Things. 
Furthermore, CoiFee has greatly increafed the Trade of To- 
bacco and Pipes, Earthen Difhes, Tin Wares, News -Papers, 
Coals, Candles, Sugar, Tea, Chocolate j and what not } Cof- 
fee-Houfes make all forts of People fociable, they improve Arts 
and Merchandize, and all other Knowledge : And a worthy Mem- 
ber of this Society, now departed, has thought that Coffee- 
Houfes have improved ufeful Knowledge very much. 
Of the Choice of Coffee. 
H Aving now defcribed the Coffee-Fruit, and all the other 
Parts of the Tree which produces it, the Country where 
It grows, the Method of its Culture, and the Manner in which 
the Domeftick as well as Foreign Trade about it is carry ’d on 
there 5 it remains ftill that we inquire into the End of all this 
Pains , both in cultivating and tranfporring it • e. the Ufes 
that are made of it, and the Reafbns of its being ufed, or the 
Virtues that have been afcribed to it. 
As for the firft of thefe, it is pad difpute, that the principal 
Way Coffee has been ufed both in the Eajl and W'eji, is by making 
it into a Liquor or Drink. 
In order to that, the firfl flep that ought to be made, is to 
chufe the bed Coffee that can be had 5 and for this, it is ncceflary 
that we be acquainted with the Rules that Authors have laid 
down for didinguifhing that from the red. 
Banejius is the fird Author who has faid any thing upon this 
Subjed j and we have already heard, that the Foundation of the 
Rules he gives, is taken from the Colour of the Fruit. There 
are t^o forts oj Berries, fays he, the one 'njohitijh, the other of a 
darhijh Citron Colour, tending towards a green 5 and this is hettet' 
and more preferable^ producing, when its Liquor boils, a great deal 
of Oilinefs fwimming on the top. 
Monfieur du Four obferves in general, that the Coffee-Fruit 
being a Grain, it has this in common with all others, that more 
pulpy and full it is (le mieux il ed nourri) it is always fo much 
the better. We ought likewife to tahe care, fays he, that it be clean, 
and free from any fort of Filth or Stuff mixed with it to increafe 
its Weight. ‘ It were to be wifhed that we could didmguifh the 
old from the new, it being certain, that the older it is, it is 
the worfe ^ becaufe the longer it is kept, the drier it becomes, 
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