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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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The Armenisns also’ it wodM appear subsequently 
imported Ooflee into Franco, aa we sliall presently Bee. 
Itis not possible to ray the exact period when Cotfee 
was firat introduced from Arabia or E^ypt iu to Europe, 
hut the most probable conjecture la, that the Veuetiaus 
and some oibo> Itaiians were the medium thro* which 
a knowledge of it was imparted to other European 
Nttfens. 
ttoiue assert that Potro delU Valle was the fir^t who 
introduced OoQoe into Italy, and he himself mentions 
iu‘ the Ist Vol. of his Work page 90, that he brought 
it with him to Italy in 1016, when Ootfee was not 
even known there. It was Mr. Theveaot, however who 
first introduced it iu Prance far perhaps as ita 
wRfl concf^rncd, for it would setm that Mr, GalUnd'a 
father, who was an Attache to the Ligation of Mr, 
de la Hayo in IGU, brought Ooffee into France and 
all it’s appurtensnees with him from Constantinople. 
Coffee was imported to Prance by the Merchants of 
Mareeillos in IGGO; since which time an extensive 
Coffee trade wm Oirried on bj the DrOggisls of tho 
place, who ordered ont whole bales of it from Egypt 
{doende die met geheeU Baaltn B^ypt^n koyiieri.) 
iu I67I the fir»i Coffte hoinse was istabliHhed iu 
Marseilles u»!ar the rende^vvu^ {vtryadcr plants der 
koopliedei\) of the ilorchmbs where smoking aim games 
of all kinds were also permitte<i. This house was of 
great service to the Mercliants, Mariners, aud the Orien- 
tals, who were wont 'o meei there and discuits thtir 
Commorcial affairs This ltd to tho < stablisbmout of 
many other publio Coffto houses ttiore. 
Some ttmo after this the Doctors and Physicians 
came forward with serious objeotiona to the use of 
the beverage, which they said was very prejudiosl 
to health in tbat dry and sultry Kegion. Those 
objectiyiis were treated at tirst very much iu the 
sumo way as those that wore raised in Mcco*, Cairo, 
and Ooustaulinople, but wth this difference, viz, 
that thei'e tho objections were utken on reUytoas 
grounds, and here on the score of health. 
llerenpon there arose public differt nows, discussions 
and academical controversy (1079) and Ooff^ic was 
denounced on Account of it’s dry uirl hot properties, 
aud ou account of the powerful effects it produces 
on tlio brain, causing thereby too profuse an evaporation 
of tho bodily fluidn, wh'lst it at tho fame time 
obstructs the pores of tho coarser parts [de groM 
declen) of the body and iudttoes tho animal spirits 
{dierlyke geesten^) which bring on sleep, to a^oeiul into 
aud pouoirato the brain, by which means the sinewy 
sap {dc zenuw-zappen) which is eo essential to tho 
restoration of health bec.mcs entirely absorbed aud 
the siiiHws thim‘elves relax and lamoness aud other 
bodily infirmit'CH ensue. 
And further that by the sharpness and dryness of 
the blood, which is entirely burnt up [doer de 
sekerpkeid en drooyte des hloeds, dat reeds aU geheel 
verbrand is,\ the different meinbefs of the bcaly are 
eo oompletoly drained of their essoutitl fluids, that 
the body itself must necessarily become enfeebled 
and umaciatod ; and those especially, of a Banguiiie 
?v. *®®^“^oholic temperament or who have a hot liver, 
Hxc brains and fiue spirits (en die genen, die cen 
neet lever^ sulke herasenen, en fgne geeiten hehhen) are 
^0 Bufft'r from these effects, which are 
of^Coffoe^^ uoxioua and unwholesomo properties 
All this stir and opposition ended at Marseilloa 
much m the Bamo way as tho clamour which had 
Decu raised by the Priests at Mecca, Csiro, and 
‘iid it in any way check the use 
ot Ooftde IU thht town, or it’s ueigbbanrhooct ; but 
on the contrary it l-iid foundation of a successful 
trade there and at Lyous, to which places large quauti 
ties of Coffee were imported from Egypt and 
Smyrna. 
Irior to the year 1661* they know nothing of Coffee 
at Faria ; and indeed nothing more was known or 
nearU of it larlierthan I«67. beyond Mr. Tlmvonot'H 
allusion to it, and tho casual accounts given of it 
by some travellers. 
Tho moat probable supposition is, that Coffee was 
tirst brought mto Paris, when SoUmau Aga, was sent 
as au Luvoy there by Mohammed the IV. to Louis 
the XIV., and that largo quantities of it found thoir 
way imo Paris thro’ the fulloweraor retinue of Soil- 
man, who made pre.-»enta of it to the Parisians. 
This niiibaisador arrived iu Paris in July 1GB9, 
hut bad sudi^^noe only «■ n tho 5.h December, and 
quitted Pads in May 1070, and it was at this time 
that the of OoflieU became properly known in Paris 
and tho demand fop it became gradually su great, 
that large quantities of it were obtuiued from Msr- 
Beiihs for consumption.’' 
Part VI a.\d Last. 
Iu IC72, an Armenian cornea over to France and 
open* a Coffee shop, but is obliged to shut it up for 
want of Customers. — Some years after another Av* 
monlan, Malibah, attempts a similar thing, but inspito 
of the froo-pipo offered by him to hi* Customers ho 
is also obligf'd to shut up shop aud cut to nolland— 
Gregor, Makara, and Ganfoisii moot wiih a batter 
fate aud Ven I Cofl'dft more successfully — Of the 
little cripple Csudiot who driggoJ himself along the 
streets and sold C ffee sweetened with sugar ; aud of 
.Stephen of Ah ppo and others from the Levant who 
conlvl nob coinjiate with Aome sharp Frenchineu w’bo 
had o‘‘tabU9bod Bplendid Coflbe houses in Paris which 
in a short time became' the resort of the “great and 
the high born” — The great Coffee controversy in 
France — The question is put to the vote and there 
appi ai-8 in fnvor of Coffee, Monsieur Aitdir; against 
ii Messrs. Dunc.in of Montpellier and Iiecquet of 
Pans— The Noea have it— Coffee finds it* way across 
tOe Lc'vaut to Franc© — Thence to' Loudon and thenoo 
to Ilolland and the principal Towns— Meets with a 
barrier in Iluiland but overleaps it— Helvetius, a 
German, writes a little work in faVor of Coffee, which 
never sees the lights and a oelebratod Physio’an Bon- 
tokoo also writes a very futninous trostiso ou Coffoa 
and dilates upon it’s great virtnes— Numberless Coffee 
houses spriug up in Holland, and every man, womau 
and child therein partakes of it freely— Du’ch hos. 
piiality incomplete without a cup of Ooftoe being 
offered and swallowod— CofToo versus IJeer— If «orae 
pe-'^ple choasft to take a grog after Cofloe, by 7my 
of a IHuretick, It is no fault of owrs— Brutes will bo 
brutes— The modorato use of Coffee recommended 
and Domestics and olhers exhorted not to indulge 
in w'hnt is called ‘‘Perpetual sipping'*— The Author 
bidshia Ifoaders adieu, Blips upon the saddle of his 
Dromedary and ia off to Persi*. 
“ [n 16/2 an Armnniaii named Pascal ramo over to 
Paris, who soli Coffee openly at tho Fsir of St. 
Germain and subsequoiitly e^tablishod a permanent 
shop there aud served ont Coffee at ‘2 stivers and 6 
Defuiera tha Cup; but as bis shop was friquentod by only 
a few strangers, ho wns soon after obliged to give it up. 
After an interval of fl or 4 y’ears. there came anotbor 
Armenian to Paris named Maliban who vended hia 
Coffee in a certain street there; indulging his Cub* 
toraers, at the aarao time, with a pipe, but this 
also did not last long, as he had to leave the place 
for Holland. 
He left, however a substitute, a youth, named 
Gregor, whom he had brought with him from Is- 
pahan and who died in an ndvanoed age. Gregor 
was succeeded by a Persian uamed Makara, who. 
after having carried on the bnsiuoss for a time, re^ 
turned to his native land, leaving one Gantoise, a 
TJege, in bis room. 
In former times a little Cripple by the name of 
Caniliot wag seen walking the streets who used to 
sell Coffee sweetened with sugar at 2 stivers each 
cup. He was Ass sted in this traflic by a mate. 
Eventually there came anothor called Stephen of 
Aleppo. Then were the first Ooffeo houses. After- 
wards, there came over many others from the Levant 
who however, in the very oommenci'ment made 
bill very indifferent aal^-s, owing to the paucity of 
CiiB’omera of any respvctibility who ventured to enter 
these Coffee house*, espeomlly on account of the 
sraokiiag and the drinking of Beer which was tolur- 
atod therein. But shortly after Frooohmeti themselves 
established similar houses uQd began to serve out 
Tta» Chgeolute and other beverages with tho ttUQWttUM 
