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THE 
HISTORY 
Of the USE of 
COFFEE 
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L A S I A and \n E U R 0 P E. 
H E Kingdom of Temen in Arabia Fostix being 
the only Country that produces Coffee in any 
plenty, it is no wonder that the Ufe of it was 
known there and in other Eaflern Parts, before 
it was fb much as heard of in Europe : Neither 
is it more furprizing, when we confider the 
Difcouragement of Learning for many Ages pafl, through the 
Dominions as well of the Grand Seignior, as of all the other 
Eaftern Princes, and the little Opportunity that European Chri- 
flians have of confulting the Hiftories which are to be found 
there ; that we fhould flill be very much in the dark as to the 
Means by which the Ufe of this Fruit was firffc difcover’d, and 
the true time in which that happen’d. 
No Author, that I know of, has carry ’d the Ufe of Coffee fo 
far back as M. du Mont in his Voyages. His Conjectures in- 
deed bring their Anfwers along with them, and fo there will be 
little elfe neceffary than barely to fet them down, and leave them 
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