Week ruicc, to ice if they will fprout, but as yet there is no dp; 
pearnnec, altho' they aie tollerably fweird and look white and 
bright. But he adds, that by making a Decoction of them, he has 
made them fhoot. 
Another convincing Proof of the falfity of this Reproach made 
to the Arabians t is given us by Monjieur de JtiJJieu^ in thefe Words : 
When the Seeds are fet in the Ground as foon as they are pulled 
from the Trees, they will hardly fail to fuccecd, but after any con- 
fiderable time, they feldom come to any Thing j and this juftifics 
the Inhabitants of the Coffee Country, from the Accufation they 
have been loaded with, of boiling or drying by Fire, all the Coffee 
they Buffer to be exported, leaft it fhould be fown in any other 
Country. 
All thefe Arguments notwithftanding, Mr. Bradley has thought 
6t to publifh this Story lately from Mr. Ray^ that is at leafl from 
the third Hand j and in fo doing he is more inexcufable than any 
of the other two. So Prudent are the Mailers of that Country, 
fays he, fpeaking of Arabia FeliXj that on no account will they 
fuffer either Plant or Seed to come alive out of their Dominions# 
taking great care to dcflroy the Germinative Faculty of thofe Ber- 
ries they fend Abroad, and infiiding the raofl feverc Punifhments on 
fuch as attempt the Tranfportation of any Plants of it. 
That the Arabians prohibit the Tranfportion of Coffee Plants 
under the fevereft Penalties, is very reafonablc to fuppofe, but I anl 
£urprizcd to hear Mr. Bradley talk of the Germinative Faculty being 
deftroyed in all the Seeds they Tranfport, and that he fays no more 
about it. For in the firfl Place, in another of his Books, he has 
given us two very good Reafons why any fuch Pradice as this (were 
it poflible without damaging the Seeds) is altogether needlcfs. The 
Coffee Berries, according to him, mull be planted with one of 
the Husks on, therefore Itncc both the Husks are taken off with all 
pofHblc Care, as being what inhances the value of the Coffee j 
they have no occafion to ufc any other Art, to prevent its being 
propagated from Seeds they fend Abroad. 
Again Mr. Bradley tells us, the Seeds mufl be planted as foon as 
they arc gathered, and he has even infilled, at great length, on the 
abfolutc neceffity thereof j there is therefore certainly no danger 
of any Plantation being begun in other Countries by Seeds: And 
accordingly we find that the B>utch never thought of cultivating 
Coffee in the Ifland of Javay 'till they had firfl, by a lucky Strata- 
gem, found the means of getting fomc Plants from Arabia. 
In the fecond Place, how could Mr. Bradley ^ a Philofophical Bo- 
tanifl, and who had before the publication of his Treatife on Cof- 
fee, written fo much concerning the Theory of Vegetation, menti- 
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