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What Dr. Tancr. Robwfon-, in his Letter 
to Mr. Ray-> has told us that the intire 
Fruit is round on one Side and fiat on 
the other, is what 1 never could obferve 
in any that 1 have looked upon. 
There is nothing but Repetitions to be 
found in any other Author beff)re the 
Year 1694, which Sir Hans Sloane^ 
amonaft a great many other Obfervations, 
equally Curious and New, concerning all 
parts of the Coffee Tree, the Flower a 
lone excepted, communicated by him to 
the Royal Society, has added to all that 
had been faid before him, that the Fruit 
comes out ex Alts foliorum., hanging or' 
Ricking to the Twigs by Inch long Strings} 
or Foot ft. Iks, and fometimes one, two, 
or more at the fame Place, All this has 
been fince confirmed by Mon. De Juffieu, 
La Roque-, &iC. 
Both Lemerys tell us, that this is a fmall 
longifh Fruit, round like a Pignon (which 
I fuppofe to be the Seed of the Ricinus 
Americanus?) 
I cannot conceive how the Coffee Plant 
efcaped Monfieur Tournefort in all the 
Works publiflied in his Life-time, even 
after he was returned from the Levant •, 
and its being mentioned and defcribed in 
that Treatife, concerning the Materia 
Medica, publifhed as a pofthumous Work 
of his, may perhaps be one good Argu- 
ment to prove it is not Genuine. 
Tt appears by Monfieur Tourne fort's 
Travels, that he was no Enemy to Coffee, 
but drank it frequently, otherwife it 
might have been thought, that he left it 
out of all his Books, for the fame reafon 
that the Author of a Latin Di<n:ionary, 
printed at Camboidge, is fiid to have omit- 
ted all the Words by which Monarchy is 
expreffed, namely, becaufe he hated the 
Thing its felf. 
Monfieur De Jujfieu-, in his excellent 
Hiftory of the Coffee Tree, read in the 
French Royal Academy in 1715. butpub- 
lifhed in the Memoires of 1713. informs 
us, from his own Obfervations on a Cof- 
fee Tree, in the Royal Garden at Paris, 
That the Embryo, or young Fruit, grows 
nearly to the bignefs of a Heart Cherry, 
and is pretty much of the fame Figure 
with if, but that when it is perfectly 
ripe and dry, it is reduc’d to the fize of 
a Laurel Berry. 
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We are obliged to Mohfieur La Roque 
for another very accurate account of the 
Coffee Tree. The Materials of it he re- 
ceived from the Officers of fome French 
Ships, who travelled over a great part of 
the Kingdom of Temen in Arabia Felix, 
and Monfieur De Jujfieu had likewife fome 
Informations from the fame Perfons, 
from which he compofed a Memoire, read 
in the Royal Academy in 1713, but ha- 
ving had an opportunity of examining the 
Coffee Tree himfdf, b. fore the Hiilory 
of that Year was publifhed, he drew up 
another Defeription of it already men- 
tioned, v/hich was inferred in the Room 
of the Firft. 
But to return to Monfieur La Roquei, 
le acquaints us thtt to every Flower fuc- 
ceeds a fmall Fruit, but which ’ny de- 
grees grows to the Size of a large Cher- 
ry, in w'hich State it is very good to 
eat. It adheres to the Tree by a finall 
Ihort Foot Stalk, and when perfeflly 
ripe, is not much bigger than a Laurel 
Berry. The Fruit comes out between 
the Leaves and Branches, i. e. as we have 
heard from Sir Hans Sloan, ex Alis fo‘ 
liorum. 
Mr. Bradley, it feems, had neither feen 
De Jujfieus nor La Roque's Memoires, 
tho’ publifhed fix Years before he under* 
took to write upon Coffee, neither has 
he examined the Coffee Fruit in the 
Amflerdam Garden, with all the Care 
that could have been wifhed 3 of this, 
we fhall give fome Inftances as we go 
along : As to our prefent Subjeft, he has 
only remark’d, that when the Fruit is 
ripe, it refembles the Berries of the 
Lauro-Cerafus, or Bay Cherry, being 
much of the fame Shape. 
To Mr. Bradley, we may join Mr, 
Jofeph Miller, who has been as negligent 
in confuliing the Authors upon this Sub- 
jefl, as the other in obferving the Fruit 
itfelf upon the Tree 3 for about the 
Fruit in general, he contents himfelf with 
telling us, that in the Coffee Shruby 
Tree, the Flowers are fucceeded by 
Berries. 
Thefe are the Obfervations that have 
been made by Authors concerning the 
Coffee Fruit, in the View in which I 
have here confidered it. I have only 
one Remark more to make about them, 
and that is, that generally fpeaking, they 
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