THE 
COFFEE-PLANTER; 
OR, 
M 
An ESSAY ,, $c. 
It is singular that the importance of our West- 
India Productions has not excited more ardour in 
those capable of treating on the manner of the 
Culture and manufacturing ofthem.—Some treatises 
have appeared on the subject of Sugar Planting, but 
none of any great degree of merit; and some—vile 
abominable trash.*—A Mr. Laeorte, in his cc St. 
Domingo Coffee-Planter, ” has handled the Subject 
with considerable ability : But his Book is rather 
calculated for a Proprietor cf an Estate, than the 
Manager, or Conductor of one. He occupies too 
many pages on the Subject of making or crea ing 
an 
* Peter Ptterkin’s Book, for instance. 
