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Coffee.
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fifteenth
century,
but
during
the
following
century
I
it
encountered
both
political
and
religious
opposition.
I
In
Constantinople
the
public
coffee-houses
were
I
closed,
the
Government
apprehending
they
were
the
I
receptacles
for
disaffection.
The
religious
grievance
jj
was
that
the
dervishes
had
discovered
that
coffee
roasted
was
a
kind
of
coal,
and
coal
being
one
of
1
the
substances
interdicted
by
Mohammed,
was
there-
I
fore
declared
not
good
for
human
food.
It
was
first
introduced
in
Marseilles
in
1644,
and
in
Paris
in
1657,
by
the
traveller
Thdvenot,
and
from
that
time
the
exotic
beverage
gradually
acquired
favour.
In
1674,
an
Armenian
opened
the
J
first
coffee-house
in
Paris.
In
this
country,
coffee
was
first
introduced
in
1652,
by
Mr.
Edwards,
a
Turkish
merchant
;
he brought
home
with
him
a
Greek
servant,
Pasquil
Rosea,
who
opened
the
first
coffee-
house
in
England
in
St.
Michael’s
Alley,
Cornhill.
The
Dutch
were
the
first
to
plant
the
coffee-tree
in
their
colonies,
having
procured
some
berries
from
Mocha,
which
they
sowed
with
success
in
Batavia,
about
1
690.
An
interesting
narrative
is
related
of
the
intro-
duction
of
coffee
into
the
French
West
Indies.
In
1717,
several
plants
were
sent
to
Martinique,
under
the
care
of
M.
de
Clieux.
The
voyage
was