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the Language they ever (peak to them. The Mafter himfelf is 
ferv’d laft j but when the Grand Vixter gives Audience to an Am- 
baiTador, he receives the Difli at the fame time with them : And 
here it may not be amifs to take notice, that when the Grand 
Vixier omits this Ceremony of prefenting Coffee to an Ambaffa- 
dor, it is a certain Sign that their Mafters will not be long 
Friends. 
The Coffee is ferv’d on Salvers without Feet, made commonly 
of painted or varnifh’d Wood, and fbmetimes of Silver. They 
hold from fifteen to twenty China Dillies each ; and fuch as can 
afford it, have thefe Diflies half fet in Silver. They are not 
above half as big as ours, and are never fill’d to the Brim, not 
only for fear of fpilling the Coffee, but that the Difh may be 
eafily held with the Thumb below, and two Fingers on the upper 
Edge. As they ufe no Milk nor Sugar, they have no occafion 
for Spoons. 
Of the Ufe of CO F F EE in the IFefiern 
Farts of Europe. 
T hat the Fruit of the Coffee-Tree was brought from 
the Levant before the Plant itfelf, is certain •, but by 
whom, or at what Time this happen’d, cannot be determin’d. 
The firfb Perfon whom 1 find upon Record to have had any 
Coffee-Berries in his PofTefTion, is Alphonfus Pancius^ an Italian 
Phyfician and Profeffor in. the Univerfity of Ferrara : and indeed 
it is very natural to think, that the Venetians, who were at that 
time foie Maflers of the Levant, were likewife the firft who 
brought this Fruit from thence. 
Some of thefe Berries Pancius fent in a Prelent to Clujius, the 
Prince of Botanifts of his Age ; and he has given us feven dif- 
ferent Figures, together with a fhort Defeription of them, in his 
Notes upon Garcias ab Horto. Before the Year i 1 3. this Fruit 
was in the hands of the curious Botanifts of almoft all Nations j 
for J. B. who died in that Year, mentions his having had Pre- 
fents of it lent him from his Friends, not only in Italy, but in 
Germany, the Lenu Countries^ and other Places. And, from what 
we meet with in Fejlingius\ Notes upon Alpinus, it is more than 
probable, that before 1638. Coffee was imported into Italy for 
Sale. He tells us, that the great Demand for it in the Lenjant 
had made it very fcarce in Europe, and that the Europeans were 
thereby deprived in a great meafure of a moft ufeful Medicine ; 
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