Inches in Circumference.. When in Per- 
fedion it looks not unlike an Apple Tree 
eight or ten Years old. In an aged Tree 
the lower Branches are ordinarily bent ; and 
at the fame time they fpread themfelves all 
round the Trunk, and fo form a Sort of 
Umbrella. The Wood is very tender, and 
withal fo pliable, that the Extremities even 
of the highefl; Branches may be brought 
within a Foot or two of the Ground with- 
out breaking. The Bark is of a whitifti 
grey Colour, and the Surface of it fome- 
what uneven. 
Concerning two other Trees which this 
Author faw in the Royal Garden at PariSt 
he obferves that one of them was only a- 
bout a Foot and an half high ; the other, 
then juft arriv’d from HolUnd^ was about 
five Feet in Length, and an Inch in Diame- 
ter. Little Branches arofe all along the 
Stem, and taken all together they form’d 
almoft the Figure of a Pyramid. 
Mr. Bradley has been at Pains to examine 
and delineate the Coffee Trees that grew 
in the uimjlerdam Garden. His Figure, 
however, is only that of a Branch, which 
he tells us refembles m every Point that he 
took it from, except only the Size, which 
ought to be one third bigger to make it e- 
qual with the Life. About the Trunk or 
Branches of this Tree he has faid nothing, 
further than that it is of a very quick 
Growth, and naturally inclinable to Ihoo: 
upwards j that in its native Country it ge- 
nerally attains, as is reported, the Height 
of forty or fifty Feet, altho’ the Stem, in 
the thickeft Parr, does not exceed five Inches 
in Diameter. He adds, That in the Gar- 
den of Amflerdam there were two Coffee 
Trees about feventeen Foot high when he 
faw them. 
As this excefflve Height aferibed to 
the Coffee Trees by Mr. Bradley, is only 
upon the Teftimony of other People, it 
ought to be of no Force againft the Truth 
of the Memoirs furnifh’d to Monf. La 
Roque upon that Subjeft ; and I am even 
afraid Mr. Bradley did not accurately mea- 
fure ihofe he faw at Amfierdam. 
CHAP. VI. 
■ The Leaves of the Coffee Plant. 
rTpl H E Leaves of the Cofree Plant terminate both Ways in a 
Jl^ narrow Point, and from thence are expanded on both 
Sides in the Figure of a Curve Line, fo as that the broadeft Parc 
of them is commonly about the Middle of their Length. Their 
regular Figure is to have this Curve Line fimilar, an equal Parc 
of the Leaf lying on both Sides the Cojla or Rib. They are 
not all, however, of this Shape, and the Variations from it con- 
fifh either in that the fime Parts of the Leaf are not equally 
broad on each Side of the Cojia • or that the Extremities of 
them are laterally bent or incurvated j both thefe admitting of 
many different Degrees. 
The Length of the largefl Leaf which I had ever an Opportu- 
nity of meafuring was nearly (even Inches 5 the greateft Breadth 
two Inches and three quarters. The whole Circumference can fel- 
dom be exactly mealured in a large Leaf^ becaufe the Edges are 
moll: commonly undulated 3 but as near as I can guefs from the 
Largenefs of the Undulations of the Leaf I have now before 
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