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( iii ; 
7 have this farther to acquaint the Reader withy that as 
'nothing has hitherto a££car d in Ehglifhj concerning the Culture 
of the Coffee TreCy and method of managing the ri^e Fruit 
in the Kingdom of Yemen m Arabia Felix (its original and 
native Tlace of growth) except Jome fhort Ohfervations com-- 
mumcated by our mofl learned and worthy ‘Prejidenty Sir Hans 
Sloane ; 1 think it will not he an imgroger Agfendix to my 
Pejer lotion of the Coffee Fruity if I fubjoin to thefcy a late 
Account y guhlipo\l in French by Monfteur La Roque, from 
Memoir es furnifhed him by Perfons who travelled over a great 
gart of that Country, 
And as the Fraud or Management imguted to the Arabians of 
fgoiling the Germinative Faculty of the Coffee Fruity before they 
juffer it to be Exgortedy is juggofed to be gut in gradice while 
they are drying and gregaring it : The Jiijlory oj this naturally 
led me to examine the grounds of that Acekfationy emd the 
Sentiments of Botanical iVriters about it. 
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