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further about the Truth of them. It was probably new. to him, 
and therefore made a very proper Material for his Botanical 
Common-Place-Book, I mean his Hijiory of Plants 5 where the 
Queftion, generally fpeaking, is what Authors have laid, but fel- 
dom v/hether they were in the right for faying fo. 
Monfieur du Mont has talked more reafonably upon this Sub- 
jcd. It is a Miltake, fays he, to believe that the Arahians, either 
by Fire or Water, endeavour to prevent the Propagation of Coffee 
elfewhere. Nature has fived them this Trouble, in giving the 
Country of Temen alone the Qiialities neceffary for producing this 
plant in any Plenty, and refufmg it to all others. Of this the 
Turks have had the Experience in an hundred Places of Anatolia 
and Romania j fo that, after all their Trials, they are Bill obliged 
to go and buy their Coffee at Suez. 
Blegny advances two other Reafons againfl this Opinion, both 
drawn from Matters of Fad. The firfl is. That a Gentleman, 
near Dijon in Burgundy^ fowed fome Coffee-Seeds as they came 
from the Levant, which produced Plants every way like thofe 
that grow in Arabia. This has been fiince contradided 5 but his 
fecond Reafon, I myfelf have experienced the Truth of, namely, 
that if a Berry is kept but a Day or two in cold Water, it will 
begin to Chit *, and if it has been firfl fleeped in HorfeAung 
Water and then put into a proper Soil, it will fend forth 
Leaves. 
Houghton made the fime Experiment, but not with the fame 
Succefs. I put fome Berries into a Glafs of Water, fays he, about 
a Week fince, to fee if they will fprout 3 but as yet there is no 
appearance, _altho’ they are tolerably fwell’d, and look white and 
bright. But he adds, that by making a Decodion of them, he 
has made them fhoot. 
Another convincing Proof of the Falfity of this Reproach 
made to the Arabians y is given us by Monfieur de Juffeu^ in thefe 
Words : When the Seeds are fet in the Ground as foon as they 
are pulled from the Trees, they will hardly fail to fucceed 3 but 
after any confiderable time, they feldom come to any thing : And 
this juflifiesthe Inhabitants of the Coffee-Country from the Ac- 
cufation they have been loaded with, or boiling or drying by Fire, 
all the Coflee they fuffer to be exported, left it fliould be fown in 
any other Country. 
All thefe Arguments notwithftanding, Mr. Bradley has thought 
fit to publifh this Story lately from Mr. Rayy that is at leaft from 
the third Hand 3 and in fo doing he is more inexcufable than any 
of the other two. So prudent are the Mafters of that Country, 
fays 
