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COFFEE.

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Coffee.

THE earlier history of the coffee-tree is rather ob- scure; the Greeks and Romans did not know it. Its fruits were used in Abyssinia and Nubia, in Arabia, since the fifteenth century, and in other countries of the Orient since the sixteenth century. The application of coffee-beans for a beverage had its origin in Arabia, and spread from there in the six- teenth century to Egypt and Constantinople. Leon- hard Rauwolf, a German physician, was likely the first that made the coffee known in Western Europe by the publication of his travels in the year 1 573. In A. D. 1 591 Prosper Alpinus brought some beans as a drug from Egypt to Venice. Coffee was drunk in Italy already in the beginning of the seventeenth century, in France and England in the middle, and in Germany at the end, of the same century. A more general use of it, however, cannot be reported before the eighteenth century. The first coffee-house in Europe was opened at Con- stantinople in the year 1551. A century later, in the year 1652, another one was opened in London at New- man's Court in Cornhill by a Greek servant of the merchant Edwards, whose ships sailed to and from the Levant. Paris saw its first cafe opened in the year 1670; it was owned by the Armenian Pascal. The