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malae West India Cossee os tesse value than the Europe an ; he is very right in his observationson the distere iace of quantity produced in disterent solis and siluatioris; he most pertinently censures the Englista sor Want of care in si is pingit home ; the French exceed us vastly in this respect; and the greater price it setches, is owingin a great degre e to superior Care and manage
municating a taste scarce to be driven Osr byfire; so penetrating are the steanas arising fronarum and sugars confined in a salp's holii. Somuch Coisee ought to be collected together arone place as to load a Vestet. It is objected like wise, that the Costrae in the west India istanducannot easily be dried in a Proper manner, si omthe great moliture of the air : but there are in
Another poliat ought not to be omitted, whichis, that our plantation Coisee is made use of toos o n. Perhaps one part Os the excellen ce of Mocha Cossee arises frona this circumstance
The East India company sen d a saip once in twoyears: it is most probabie a part of the load inglias been Lept in that hol dry country above ab ear; it is si x monilis besore it arrives in Eng-
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Mucii os that mucit age, v hicli most probabis in roat ing is the basis of iis flavour, is changed by this delay ; and indeed eXperience Confirms it. Bessides many instances that might be givens rona credibi e vulnesses and especialty from Go- vernor Scott's accolant of this subjecti hereunto annexed) the following passed under my own observation, and, as far as it reaches, may bo
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. peopte sorbear drinhing Coisee. I do not pre sume to setile this important question, Whicli is preferable, Tea or Comee t This must be lest tothe experience of individuales. So far as concerias myself, I may be permitted to become
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I tried Cossee, made in the manner above mentioned, and haVe drank it almoit constantly many years, Without receiving any inconveniencei rom it.
It may require a good deal of physical saga city to determine, hoW far the Fresach customos drini ing Cove immediately after dinner, is right; but I thin E it can admit of no dispute, whether a dissi os Comee, or a botile of Wine, maythen be lesse prejudiciat to health. I thinii, however, it is tesse injurious to drin
Cos e immediately aster dinner, than later in the evening ; and at least for one very obvious
Cosse e most certainly promotes Walchsta inesse ;or, in other Woriis, it suspen is the inclination toneep. TO thole theres re who wisii not to betoo subjeet to this inclination, Cossee is hin doubtedly preserable to Wine, Or perhaPS to any other liquor Ue linori . The instances of persons to whom Corie hasthis antisoporific effect, are very nUmerOUS ; and the instances are almost as numerous of such towhom wine has the opposite e Tedit.
To attribute the livetinesse of the French, after their repatis, to this beverage, Would be highlyhypothetical: but j think it must be achnowledged, that a ter a tuli meat, perhaps of grossanimal sood, even a mere diluent is much pre ferable to wine ; Whicli, vehilst it sives a temporary flow of animal spiriis, rather opposses that necessary assimilation V iich nature atrias at in the ossices of digestion.
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Was Comee substituted inste ad of the botile
immediately after dinner, it seems more than probable that many advantages would flow fromit, both to the health of individuals, and generaloeconomy; and it seems not improbabie, buthy deferring Comee or Tea so late as is usuallypractised, me interrupi digestion, and a id a neoload os matter to that atready in the stomach, whicli, aster a fuit meat, is not a matter of in
On the contrary, ever since I vias capable offorming an opinion on subjeets of this nature, Ιcould not forbear thinhing, that the use of Tea
in an afternoon, at the time and in the mannerit has generalty been practis edi is exceedinglyprejudiciat to many persons; and is many have es caped without feeling any prejudiciat est edis, they may justly ascribe it to the firmness of their
constitution ; Ι was almost tempted to say, totheir good fortune. This matter, I OWn, is ca-pable of much dispute; and the more so, as minute distinctions must be called to the aid of both partie S. I cannot however conclude these rem artis, without repeating the substance of what I could wim to inculcate ; that in respect to real use, and as a part of our od, I have no eviden ceto induce me to think that Comee is inferior to
That in respect to nationat oeconomy, thebenesit of our colonies, and the lives of the se a men, every circumstance concurs to give Corie Vo L. II. Y the
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produce ultimately brought to Great Britain. That the great obstacle to a more generat Use
an increased consumption Would malle up the deficiency to the treasUry. That the planters would be induced to culti vate Coisee with more care, was there a bellermari et for it.
severat istands; as Europe ans might endure thel abour requisite for the cultivation os Comee. I have subjoined the translation os a paper Communicated to me by Governor Melville, whose UnWearied endeavo ars to promote the interest ofGreat Britain and her colonies deserves every
gratefiat achnowledgment; and likewi se the copyos a letter I received long since frona the late Governor Scott of Dominica: I persuade myself, that eviden ces like these Will have some weight with the public. Should any part of these remariis amord mystiend re ason to thinii they may contribute to the benefit of the community, he is at liberty to malaeu se of them in What manner he pleases.
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perienced Planter at the Grenades, commu
SEVERA L persons in Europe imagine, that
produce of this plant. They learn from experience, that a light soli, dry and elevated siopes, produce Cossee of asmaller berry and more delicate flavour; and that ali the Cos e which grows in a low, fertile, and moist soli, is bad, the berry large and flat, and almost insipid. Experience also teaches them, that trees plante din these solis yield commonly from twelve tosixteen ounces of Cosne per plant; in the other solis they scarcely furnissi more than from sirx toeight ounces ; this malles an immediate differen ce of one half in the weight. Now in France, England, and ali the Europe an mari eis, the on lystaled difference in the price of the sinali mell- prepared Corie, and that Whicli is larger and of the worst Lind, is from fifteen to tWenty per Cent.
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The inhabitanis there re would necessarily findit their a luantage to plant their Cossee-trees in the richest soli and those persons Only will have the smali and fine Cossee, Who have no Other than bad grotan is, and have not a sufficientia Umber of Negroes to manu re and improVe
The calculation is east ly made : with an equalnumber of planis double the weight is produced ;and by the differe iace of price no more is tostri an frona fifteen to twenty per Cent. Interesthath therefore prevented our inhabitanis frona applo ing thenaseives to the culture of that hin dos Cost de Whicli is most valued in Europe. ToeXcite a Proper en Ulation among them, the dis
fere iace of price belween the Various foris of Conee snould be as conssiderable as it is belweenthe severat Lin is of sugar. To these Consideration S We may add, that thetrees last a nuicii longer time in the fertileg round , and ehat they need not be transplantedio fruquently.
Some mili ut persons have ad vised to followthe method of ille Arabs, Willi respeet to the preparation OC Coli C, in t o particulars; fit st, never to gather it tili it is persectly ripe, se conci ly, tu dry it in the iliade, When separate d rom the PVlP. t he last of these is scarce possibie; be cause, although the air is very hot in these climates, itis always so damp, ibat We kno frona experien cethe Costee could never be di ted in the shade sus ficient ly sor exportation into Europe.
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ing near the winter, the rains, whicli are theta
Very frequent, osten mal e the berries fili besore they are persectly ripe. As to the history of our Cossee, it certain lycomes Originalty from Babel Mandel. The fit sttree that was brought to Martinico in II 27, or 1728, by Mr. Delieta, came frona the gardens of
his Most Christian Majeshy, and was of the fame
species as that whicli is at Batavia. This treeWas planted near to Pori Royal, in a fertile moist soli, , and almost levet with the sea, so that thespecies must necessari ly have degeneraled. All the lower classi of peopte in Martinico be- fore this time cultivaled the Cocoa; but by a
Contagion, as dissiculi to accolant for as theeffect of it was generat, ali the Cocoa-trees Perimed in 1 27. The inhabitanis, half ruin ed, after having tried severat schemes, resolved atlast to plant Cossee ; and the French East India Company having lowered the duties, this culti
The French are in generat more cautious in the eXportation of their Comee than the Englim ιthey put it into cassis that are very dry: in the
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There is another more distant cause, that feWpeople have noti ced, but Whicli contributes greatly to the badness of the Cossee exported into England .
Most of the Englissi stips are hired for the
goods have been properly disposed, or whether they have received any detriment by lying neareach other. The French saips are generalty ladensor the proprie tors oWn use ; the captains blay the goods themselves ; and, that they may beable to give a proper account of their manage ment, and to siueW that they have ached with prudence and caution, they are obliged to pay great attention to the stowage of their vesset, and tothe preservation of their cargoes. Heiace it sol lows, that the Cossee whicli is carried to Franceis beller than that Whicli is brought to England. Extract