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this Country, Europe might (till have been without it j and the Curioiis 
might ftill have had Reafon to complain in thele elegant Words ^ 
of Mr. Ray, Mirum tantum Thefaurum unius gentis^ pecuUum efcy 
tamque lucrofce jlirpis Plant aria, intra unius ProDinci<e Angujiias 
coerceri. Mirum ‘vicinas Nationes extimulante in^idia aut a^varitia, 
ea jam pridem non ^el "vi depopulatas ejfe, ^el femina aut uiuas ra- 
dices dolo furripuiffe. Mirum quern ^igilem draconem Coce^etis fuis 
tuendis praficiant indigence, qui ornnes injidiantium technas^ ^ cona^ 
tus frujlretur ^ eludat. But now, by the Care and Induftry of 
the fagacious Dutch, the Ground of that Complaint has ceas’d, 
DeJuj£ jam n}igilantijfmi Draconis Arahici techna. Arbor que non tan- 
tum in alias Ajiaticas tranfplantata nunc Regiones^ fed ^ in Euro- 
pam nojlram tranfveBa ^ l<ete nunc in Belgio ^ Septentrionalihus 
Oris^ accedente indefefjis culture curis ^irefcit. As Volkamerus has 
well expreffed it. 
How the Du'ch made themlelves Mailers of the Coffee Plant, 
has been varioufly related by Authors: Some are of Opinion, that 
they found Means to carry off a whole Tree by Stratagem 5 and 
Mr. Bradley j amongfl the reft, has related a Story to this Purpofe. 
But it is from Profeftbr Boerhaa^e that we learn the whole Truth 
of this Matter*, and likewife by what Means the Plant was brought 
into the Amjlerdam Garden. Nicholas Wit fen, Burgomafter of 
Amjlerdam, and Direcftor of the Dutch Eajl- India Company, wrote 
feveral times to M. Van Hoorn, then General of Bata^iia, to caufe 
(ome frefh Coffee Seeds to be brought from Mocca-, and to be 
planted and cultivated with all poffible Care in the Ifland of Ja^a, 
of which Batavia is the Capital. Van Hoorn did as he was direct- 
ed 3 and having in a little time rais’d a confiderable Number of 
Plants, he fent one of them to Amjlerdam, in a Prefent to tVitfen, 
who, as he had been the original Founder of the Phyfick Garden 
there, thought that the moft proper Place for it to be lodg’d in. 
There it foon bore Fruit, from which many new Trees have al- 
ready and ftill continue to be raifed. This Relation that learned 
Author affures us he had from Witfen himfelf 3 but his original 
Words, of which I have here given the Subftance in Englijh, de- 
ferve to be fet down : Amplijfimus ^ir Nicolaus Witfen, Amjlelceda- 
menfs Conful, atque Indies Orientalis Societatis Prafe&us, pojlquam 
ftpe Uteris monuerat Primum Societatis Indices PreefeBum Van Hoorn 
ut Semina recentia Cafe Mofehd Arahies Felicis urhe deferenda cura- 
ret, atque in infula fa^a in cujus MetropoU Batavia habit ahat, 
terviS commijfa foqierety cui ille juffo parens, arbor efque inde naBus 
plurimas, unam mift amplijjtmo njiro, qui Jlatm quam liheralijjime in- 
comparabili hoc Grnamento dona^nt hortum Amjlelesd amen fern, cujus 
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