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on To fingular a ^h^nomenon as this, without at lead endeavouring 
to account for it ? Efpccially after what he might have found upon 
this Subjed, in Dr. Grew's Anatomy of T^lants, in which it is Ihown, 
as we have already heard, that let the Germinative Faculty of the 
Coffee Berries be dedroyed never fo much, the Germe it felf is 
not j the Seminal Plant being dill as plainly difcernible in the Cof- 
fee as it is brought to us, as in any other Seed whatever. 
Thefe two Rededions relate ehiefly to Mr. Bradley, the’ the fird 
of them may be applied to the fad in Quedion, about which fomc 
further Obfervations from Monjieur la Roque deferve dill to be added. 
It is the general Opinion, fays that Author, but of which the Learn- 
ed begin to fee the Folly more and more every Day, that the Ara- 
bians, jealous of this Commodity only to be found amongd them, 
never differ fo much as one Coffee Bean to go out of their Coun- 
try, which has not paded the Fire, or been boiled in Water, 
to kill the Germe, as is pretended, that fo, if any body had a 
mind to fow it in another Country, it might be to no purpofe. 
“fohn Ray, an Englijh Dodor, and one of the mod celebrated Bo- 
tanids of our Time, has given in to this vulgar Error, as well as the 
red i for after talking of the Virtues of Coffee, he tells us very fe- 
rioudy, that it is dirprifing how the Arabians fhould prevent 
the exportation of fo much as one Grain of Coffee into ano- 
ther Country, that is capaple of producing a Plant, &c. But 
this is a Midake, for which there can be no further Pretence, 
after the Affurances our Travellers have given us of the contrary^ 
and after the intire Bales of Coffee in Flusk, which the French 
Veffels brought along with them 5 for thefe certainly had undergone 
no change. 
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