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Circumftance however, that this Prohibition of Coffee-Houfcs 
extended to feveral other great Cities of the Empire, befides 
ConjlantinopJe, 
M. Galandj whofe Veracity none who have heard of him will 
call in queftion, alTures us that he had this Story from M. Her-- 
mange, then Phyfician to the Count de Thouloufe, and who had 
ferv’d the laft Foxier KupruJi in the lame Station, till he was kill’d 
at the Battle Salanhmen : And he adds from his own Knowledge, 
while at ConjlantinopJe, that the Prohibition of Colfee-Houles con- 
tinues Bill in force there 5 but neverthelels, that there is as much 
Coffee drank as ever. They carry it into the Market-Places and 
great Streets in large Pots with Fire under them in Chafin- 
dilhes, and thole who have a mind to drink, Ifep into any 
neighbouring Shop, where every one is welcome upon fuch an 
Account. There are likewile a few publick Coffee-Houles al- 
low’d in the Suburbs call’d Galata, in favour of the Sailors 5 nei- 
ther arc they forbidden in any other City of the Empire. Ac 
Damascus particularly they are extremely magnificent and richly 
furnilli’d, being much frequented by Perlons of the greatelf Dit 
tindlion. 
Thus was Coffee firll dilcover’d, and the Ule of it effablilli’d 
all over the Eaft, even as far as India, in leveral Parts of which 
^ vafh Territories, both antient and later Travellers alTure us it is 
drank, elpecially in the Sea-Port-Towns, and other Places where 
there is the greateff; Intercourle of Strangers. In Verjia it is as 
common as in Turkey , and both Figueroa and Olearius remark the 
extreme Magnificence of the Coffee-Houles at Ifpahan, to which 
even the SopJoi himfelf us’d frequently to relort. 
The manner of preparing the Liquor in all thele Countries is 
the fame, and not much different from ours. It is certain, from 
the moft antient Accounts of Travellers, as well as the exprels 
Teftimony of one of the above-mentioned Arahick Authors, that 
it has always been a Cuftom to begin by roafting the Berries, 
then to pound or grind them to powder, and afterwards to throw 
a certain Quantity of that Powder into boiling Water. By what 
means the Arabians came firft to think of roafting the Berries, or 
when that Cuftom began among them, 1 have not been able to 
dilcover ^ the Original of it may probably have been owing to 
Lome Accident, the Hiftory of which is now loft. 
But what delerves principally to be taken notice of concerning 
the Arabian Way of preparing this Liciuor, is, that they do not 
make it with the Kernels only, but alto with the Husks or Co - 
verings of the Coffee-Fruit, which laft is much more efteem’d 
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