Thefe are the Particulars contain’d in this Relation 5 which may 
ferve to give at leaft fome general Notion of the Country which 
produces Coffee. The true Extent of it is not as yet known* 
and much lefs in what Parts of it Coffee Trees grow, or how 
much Land is yearly employed for thefe Plantations. Mr. Brad^ 
ley tells us, that the greateft Part of them are a few Days Jour- 
ney inland from Mocca^ and near the City Sanaa^ about twenty 
Degrees of Northern Latitude. And in another Place, that the 
Coffee Tree is found from the Latitude of eighteen to twenty 
Degrees North. 
We lliall hear fbmething more determinate about this from Mr. 
Be la Mor^vellley in what he has faid about the Coffee Trade. But 
as the Coffee Plant has now, notwithftanding all the Pains the 
Arabians have been at to prevent it, found its Way to other 
Parts, and is there cultivated with good Succefs j an Account of 
the Manner in which that happened, and what have been the 
Confequences thereof, belongs likewife to the Hiftory of the 
Locus Natalis of this Plant. And here I mufl: begin by obferv- 
ing, that by a late Account fent to Mr. Be JujJieu at Baris ^ from 
one Mr. Gaudrony an Apothecary at St. Malosy publifh’d in the 
Hiflory of the Royal Academy, it would feem that the Coffee 
Plant, or at leaft one Species of it, was a Native of the Ifland 
of Bourhony near Madagafcar, as well as of the Kingdom of 
Temen. 
^ The Inhabitants of the Ifland of Bourhony fays Mr. Be Fon- 
teneJlcy ^ having feen fume Branches of the Coffee Tree^ full of 
‘ Leaves and Fruit, which a French Veflel had brought from 
‘ Moccay prefently difeover’d that they had the fame Sort of 
‘ Tree growing upon their Mountains ,♦ and upon comparing 
^ them together, the Ships Company were convinced that they 
‘ were really alike j only that the Bourbon Coffee Fruit is longer, 
^ finaller, and greener than that of Arahiay and when burnt has 
‘ a bitterer Tafle. 
Whatever Way this Plant got into that Ifland, it is certain that 
the French^ to whom it belongs, have lately cultivated Coffee 
there wuth good Succefs, and have fent feveral large Quantities 
into Europe 5 and it is not long fince the publick News-papers 
gave us an Account of the Sale of one Parcel by the French Eajl 
India Company at Paris y which was faid to be as good as any that 
comes from the Levant. Tho’ we fhould fuppofe this an indige^ 
nous Plant of that Ifland, yet it has been fo lately know*n there, 
and that only by comparing it with others brought from Arabia 
FeliXy that had not a Way been found of propagating it from 
