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Thofc who arc for the other fide of the Queftion, anfwer, that 
the Tree which bears the Coffee, being a Plant of fo great Confe- 
quence, it is impoflible to think that either Curiofity, Neceflity or 
Interefi, muft not have naturalized it in fome other Country before 
this Time, if the germinative faculty of the Fruit were not loft be- 
fore it reaches any other Place. But fuch People do not duly at- 
tend to the difpenfations of Providence, which has given to every 
Country, exclufive of all others, the privilege of producing fome 
Things, w'hich all the Induftry of Man can never render common 
in any but that. 
Dr. Robinforiy tho* without giving any reafon for it, is of a diffe- 
rent Opinion from Monfieur *Du Four. The Arabians, according 
to him, are as careful in deftroying the germinative Faculty of the 
Coffee Fruit or Seed, as the F)utch of the Moluccos are in their 
Kutmegs. 
This Opinion is likcwifc adopted by Mr. Ray, and he has tranfla- 
ted Dr. Robinfon's Words into Latin, without ever inquiring fur- 
ther about the truth of them. It was probably new to him, and 
therefore made a very proper Material for his Botanical common 
Place Book, I mean his Hifiory of Riant s ; where the Queftion, 
generally fpeaking, is what Authors have faid, but feldbm whether 
they were in the right for faying fo. \ ! 
Monjieur R)u Mont has talked more reafonably upon this Subject.’ 
It is a Miftake, fays he, to believe that the Arabians, either by Fire 
or Water, endeavour to prevent the propagation of Coffee elfewhere. 
Nature has faved them this Trouble, in giving the Country of Temen 
alone, the Qualities neceflary for producing this Plant in any Plenty, 
and refufing it to all others. Of this the Turks have had the Expe- 
rience in an hundred Places of Anatolia and Romania, fo that after 
all their Trials, they are ftill obliged to go and buy their Coffee at 
Suez. 
Blegny advances two other Reafbns againft this Opinion, both 
drawn from Matters of Fad. The firft is. That a Gentleman, near 
T)ijon in Burgundy, fowed fome Coffee Seeds as they came from 
the Levant, which produced Plants every way like thofe that grow 
in Arabia. This has been fince contradided, but his fecond Rea- 
fon, 1 my felf have experienced the Truth of, namely, that if a 
Berry is kept but a Day or two in cold Water, it will begjn to 
Chit. ; - 
Houghton made the fame Experiment, but not with the fame Suc- 
cefs. 1 put fome Berries into a elafs of Water, ' fays he, about a 
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