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and to difplay its Virtues to the World. The Means he made 
ufc of for this are fo furprizing, that I am perfuaded the Reci- 
. tal of them will appear no lefs wonderful than entertaining,’ 
After fo grave an Introdudion, one would have expeded no- 
thing lefs than an Account of fome Miracle, or at lead fome 
very extraordinary Difpenfation of Providence j but, inftead of 
that, we find only an idle Monkifli Dream, or, which is mod 
commonly the fame thing, an Oriental Tradition. 
I have already obferv’d, that Bantus has faid nothing about 
the time when this lucky Accident happen’d ; but fince he is of 
opinion, that the Fruit of the Coffee-Plant was known to Avi- 
cenna, he mud needs have placed it before the middle of the 
eleventh Century. I find two Paflages quoted from Avicenna, 
from which it has been concluded, that he was acquainted with 
Coffee ; the fird, as it dands in the Latin Tranflation, is in 
thefe Terms. 
7)e B u N c H o. 
^ Bunchmn quid eji ? Eft res delata de Jamai, ^tdam autem 
^ dixerunt quod ejl de Radicibus Anigailen cum antiquatur ^ cadit, 
^ Melius efi Citrinum, ^ leve^ ^ honi Odoris. Album vero ^ 
grave ejl malum. Ejl calidum Jiccum in primo 3 fecundum 
^ quofdam ejl Jrigidum in primo. Confortat Membra mundijicat au- 
< tern & exjiccat Humiditates qua funt fub ea dt* facit Odorem 
^ Corporis bonum, abfcindit Odorem Pjilothri. Ejl bonum Sto- 
‘ macho,* 
Some part of this Paffage feems to be taken from Rhazes, and 
becaufe what this Author has faid mud dand or fall, together 
with what we have heard from Avicenna, I lhall here fubjoin it. 
^ Bunchum calidum ejl d^ ftccum 3 quod Stomacho congruum ex- 
* ijlens, mali Sudoris Odorem atq-^ Pjilothri incidit dP 
Rauvuoljius, the fird Author who found the Coffe-Berry, in 
thefe Paffages tells us, that fince Bunn agrees in its Virtue, Fi- 
gure, and Name with the Buncho of Avicenna, and Banca of 
Rhazes, he mud believe them to be the fame, until he is better 
informed by the Learned. Banejtus is dill more pofitive, but his 
Reafons are the fame with thofe of Rauvjolfius, added to the Au- 
thority of fome other Writers fince his time j and, to put the 
Matter dill more beyond difpute, he has propos’d and anfwer’d 
what Objedtions he thought his Opinion liabje to. 
