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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