As fooii as it Is gathered, they put it into Sacks, and carry it to 
a convenient Place for drying. There they lay it in Heaps upori 
Matts, expofed to the Sun, till fuch time they think the Husks may 
be ealily got off, by means of large Stone or Iron Rollers, which 
they draw over them for that Effed. 
M"hcn the Beans are thus cleared from the Husks, and parted in 
two in the manner we fee them, they are laid out to dry in the 
Sun a fccond time, being as yet too green ahd moift to fuffer the 
Sea j afterwards they winnow them with great Fans, till they are 
thoroughly clean j for without that Care, their Coffee does not fell 
at near fo great a Price as otherwife. 
Thus far Monfieur la Roque ; and by all thefe different parts of 
Labour is Coffee made fit for Ufe or Sale i being tranfported in this 
State, in immenfe Quantities, from one Province of Arabia Felix 
alone, through all the reft of AJiaj and Europe^ and a good Part 
of Africa and America. 
Whether the Arabians tife any Art to prevent 
the growth of the Co FFJiF, Plant in 
other Countries. 
W H O was the Inventor or firft rclater of this Story, That the 
Arabians fpoil the geminative Faculty of the Coffee Fruir, 
I cannot find. Of all the Authors I have confulted, F)u Four is 
the firft who has mentioned it 5 but at the fame time he talks of it 
as a thing that had been often faid before him j neither is he at all 
inclined to think it is true. 
A great many People allure us, fays he, that the Coffee Fruit is 
boiled, or pafi'ed through a hot Oven before it be expofed to fale, 
in order to deftroy the Germe or vegetative Principle in it, for fear 
it fhould be fown elfewhere. Others maintain the contrary, and ’ 
their Opinion is grounded on a Reafon, which to me Teems undif- 
putable. If it were true, fay they, that Coffee is cither boiled of 
heated in an Oven before it is exported from Arabia^ it \Vould be 
a- very rare thing to find any Berries with the Skins upon them, for 
thefe being but thin, would neceffarily be confumed at the firft ap- 
proach of fire, and yet a great many fuch Berries are to be met 
with in the Coffee that comes to thefe Parts ; befides, the Fire 
Would give it a burnt Tafte or Smell, which nevcrthelefs we do not 
perceive it hath. 
Thof® 
