The double Berries I diftinguiflied into two Sorts only, and the 
Dimenfions and Weight were thefe. 
Large ft Sort, 
Leaft Sort. 
Length, three eighths of an Inch. 
Circumf. one Inch and one eighth. 
Weight, four Grains. 
Length, one quarter of an Inch.' 
Cir. eleven fixteenths of an Inch. 
Weight, feven eighths of a Grain. 
By this it appears that the double Berries that are imported intirc,’ 
may as cafily mifs the Roller as the lingle ones. 
The firfl; Author, by whom I find the 
Coffee Fruit fo much as mentioned, is 
Raumljiusy who was in the .Levant in 
the Year 1573. and what he has faid, 
with relation to our prefent Subject, is 
only, that both in Bignefs and Shape, the 
Coffee Fruit is Hite the Bay Berry. This 
Comparifon has been often ufed, and 
with refpedt to the intire Berries, fuchas 
they are found commonly in Levant y 
is, 1 believe, pretty juft 3 but the far 
greateft of thofe that are imported hither, 
are conliderably fmaller. 
Next to Rauvpslfius is Profper Alpinusy 
who was in Epypt in 1580. he has faid 
but very little concerning the defeription 
of the Fruit 3 neither is it certain whi- 
ther he means the in tire Fruit, or only 
the Kernel. 
The firft Coffee Fruit that ever I hear 
to have been in Europey was fent to Clu- 
fius by Alphonfus PanciuSy an Italian Phy- 
ftcian y and CLufius has obferv’d about it, 
that it is a fmall Fruit, fomething bigger, 
and more oblong than that of the Faparay 
with a kind of Sulcus running lengthwife 
on both fides of it. 
This Author had another prefent of 
thefe Seeds in 1596. from Honorius Bellusy 
who was at that time in the Ifland of 
Crete. 
Gerrard has done nothing but copy C/k- 
fius'% Figures, which he has placed by mi- 
ftake, amongft the Indian Fruits. Johnfony 
in his Edition of Gerrardy has added 
Clufius’s Text to his Figures. 
Before the Year 1613. the Coffee Fruit 
was in the Hands of moft of the curious 
Botanifts in Europey for J. B, who died 
in that Year, mentions his Friendshaving 
fent him fomeof them from all Quarters j 
and the Account he has given us of the 
Fruit in general is, that it is hardlv bigger 
than the Seeds of Ricinusy of the fhape of 
an Olive, with a Sulcus or Lacuna fome- 
times on one Side and fometimes on both. 
By this laft, however, we are onlv to un- 
derftand that the Depreffure is not al- 
ways alike perceivable on both fides of 
the Fruit. 
Petrus de la Valley who was at Conflan' 
tinople in 1615, has obferved nothing chat 
belongs to this Head, lave only that the 
Grains of which Coffee is made, are of 
an oval Figure, and about the bignefs of 
a fmall Olive. 
Oleariusy Secretary to the Holflein Em- 
baffy, fent into Perfia in the Year 1633. 
compares the fize of the Coffee Fruit to 
that of a fmall Bean. 
According to Parkinfon, the Coffee 
Fruit is fomewhat bigger than a Hazel 
Nut, and longer 3 round alfo and pointed 
at one End, furrowed alfo on both Sides, 
yet on one Side more confpicuounv than 
the other. Thefe Words (how plainly 
enough, that Parkinfon had feen the Cof- 
fee Fruit, but withal that he had been 
at very little Pains to examine it. 
Banefiusy the firft Author who ever 
publifiiedaTreatife expreffely on Coffee, 
tells us, that the intire Fruit is fomewhat 
like the Cacao, but cleft along the Mid* 
die like a Date-ftone. 
The Comparilbns by which the three 
laft mentioned Authors have endeavoured 
to explain the Size or Figure of the Cof- 
fee Fruit, are, all of them, very ill cho- 
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