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(ays he, fpeaking of Arabia Felix, that on no account will they 
luffer either Plant or Seed to come alive out of their Dominions, 
taking great care to deftroy the germinative Faculty of thofe Ber- 
nes they fend abroad, and infliding the moft feverc Punilhments 
on fuch as attempt the Traniportation of any Plants of it. 
That the Arabians prohibit the Tranfportation of Coffee- 
Plants under the fevereft PenaltieSj is very rcafonable to fuppofe ; 
but 1 am furprized to hear Mr. Bradley talk of the germinative 
Faculty being deftroyed in all the Seeds they tranfport, and that 
he fays no more about it. For, in the ffrff: place, in another of 
his Books, he has given us two very good Reafons why any fuch 
Pradice as this (were it poflible without damaging the Seeds) is 
altogether needlefs. The Coffee-Berries, according to him, muft 
be planted with one of the Husks on j therefore, fince both the 
Husks are taken off with all poffible Care, as being what in- 
bailees the Value of the Coffee j they have no occafion to ufe 
any other Art, to prevent its being propagated from Seeds they 
fend abroad. 
Again, Mr. Bradley tells us, the Seeds muff; be planted as foon 
as they are gathered \ and he has even infiffed, at gieat length, 
on the abfolute Neceflity thereof : there is therefore certainly no 
danger of any Plantation being begun in other Countries by 
Seeds : And accordingly we find, that the Butch never thought 
of cultivating Coffee in the Ifland of Ja^a^ till they had firft, by 
a lucky Stratagem, found the Means of getting fome Plants from 
Arabia. 
In the fecond place, how could Mr. Bradley, a Philofophical 
Botanift, and who had, before the Publication of his Treatiie on 
Coffee, written fo much concerning the Theory of Vegetation, 
mention fo fingular a Fhmomenon as this, without at leaff; en- 
deavouring to account for it ? efpecially after what he might have 
found upon this Subjed, in Dr. Gref's Anatomy of Plants 5 in 
which it is fhown, as we have already heard, that let the germi- 
native Faculty of the Coffee-Berries be deftroyed never fo much, 
the Germe itfelf is not 5 the Seminal Plant being ftill as plainly 
difcernible in the Coffee as it is brought to us, as in any other 
Seed whatever. 
Thefe two Refledions relate chiefly to Mr. Bradley, tho’ the 
firft of them may be applied to the Fad in Queftion, about which 
fome further Obfervations from Monlieur la Roque deferve ftill to 
be added. 
It is the general Opinion, fays that Author, but of which the 
Learned begin to fee the Folly more and more every day, that 
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