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it is needlefs to enumerate the various things that have been 
made ufe of by Authors, as a Foundation for the Circumlocu- 
tions by which Coffee, and efpecially the Coffee Plant, has been 
expreffed : It is fufficient to remark. That thofe moft in Vogue 
now-a-days have been taken from the Agreements obferved there- 
in with thefe Parts of the Jeflamins which Botanifis principally 
attend to in diftributing Plants into Claffes, Sedtions, Genera, 
by this means Jafminum is become the generical Word for it j 
and the reft of the Circumlocution is only a Catalogue of Dif- 
ferences by which it is diftinguifhed from the. other Species of 
Plants ranked under the fame Genus with itj or a fort of De- 
fcription of what is thought to be moft remarkable in it. 
CHAP. III. 
Locus Natalis, 
I T wouH be to no Purpofe to take Notice of all the Miftakes 
that both Botanifts and Travellers have been guilty of in de- 
termining the Countries where Coffee grows : Some have brought 
it from India, others from Perfta, others from Egypt, and a great 
many from that Country of -where Mecca is fituatedj but 
it is now paft all Difpute, that Coffee grows no where in Arabia^ 
but in the Kingdom or Province of Yemen, in Arabia Felix j nor 
any where elfe in the World, except in the Iflands of Jaija and 
Bourbon, and fome other Places where it has begun of late to be 
cultivated by the Induftry of the Dutch, French and Englijh 5 of 
which in the proper Place. 
This Kingdom of Yemen, as all the other Parts of the vaft 
Territories of Arabia, is ftill too much unknown for the Reader 
to expe6t any particular Account of it 5 Monf De Lijle has been 
at all poffible Pains to give us an accurate Map of fb much of 
it as he could get any tolerable Informations about, either from 
the European and Arabian Geographers, or from the French Offi- 
cers who were upon the two Expeditions lately made from St. 
Malays to Moca j of which Monf. La Roque has given us a very 
compleat Relation 5 yet even that is very imperfed. 
However, that I may not leave my Readers altogether unac- 
quainted with the Country to which all the World is beholden 
for the Fruit which I am now deftribing, I have thought it pro- 
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