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PREFACE 
N »«)r Botanical Defcription of the Coffee Berry, puUtJh’d 
Jome Time ago, ■ I acquainted the Readers with m'l Defion 
of treating the whole Coffee Plant, as foon as 1 Jhould have 
corwement Opportunities of finijhing the Ohfervations about it 
which I had then aBually begun to make. The Delays and Dif- 
ficulties 1 have met with in going through this Enquiry, have 
been greater than I at firfi apprehended; and! cannot fay I 
have as yet compleated it to my Satisffaio,, , hawever, what / 
now venture to communicate, will, I hope, in fame meafure gra- 
tify the Curtofity of the Publick, and be of fame real ufe to 
taofe who have any Deftre and Opportunity of cultivating this 
delightful Exotick, of the Fruit whereof there is yearh made 
fo vajl a Confumption among us. 
/ begin by a Lift of Names that belong to this Plant, and 
having made fome neceffary RefleBions upon ihefe, I give a large 
Account of thehod ^o.u\c%,or Places wherein it is at prefent found 
to grow, as well m the Kingdom of Yemen Arabia Felix, as the 
other Countries both m Europe W America, thro which it 
has now fpread it felf fetting down what Informations I have been 
able to pt concerning every Step of its Progrefs ftnce it fir ft 
found- the IVay out of its native Country. Having in the next 
place pretnifed fome general Obfervations about the Plant it felf 
as It has been confided d by Botanical Writers, I go on to a par- 
ticu ar efriptton of all the P arts of it, taken from my own 
repeated Obfervations, carry’d as great a Length as it has hi- 
therto been m my Power to do; and I conclude by fuch Direc- 
^ tions 
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