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Paper regarding the coffee industry. The author gives details about coffee from Moab [Jordan], Arabia Felix [South Arabia, now Yemen] and [Bethel Valkeil?], from where coffee was usually bought for England. The author details coffee cultivation, including Dutch coffee plantations in Java [Indonesia]. He also provides details about the taste and texture of Turkish coffee and Cuscoe [Cusco?] coffee.

Subject: Agriculture

Read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1731.

Reference number
CLP/10ii/19
Earliest possible date
1731
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of coffee or cahuah' by unknown author, 1731, CLP/10ii/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10ii_19/paper-of-coffee-or-cahuah-by-unknown-author, accessed on 21 April 2026

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