IT has been remark’d by several eminent Men, That in the Countries of the _East_, where this Liquor is drank plentifully, the Inhabitants of those Parts are seldom or never troubled with the Stone, Gout, or Dropsy; which Distempers they imagine to be subdu’d by the powerful Virtue of this Decoction: but whether this Drink be proper for such as are afflicted with the Stone, I shall leave to the Judgment of the Learned, after they have read the following Relation, which I had from a Gentleman of _Leyden_, and what I believe may be depended upon: A Person of that University prepared two Gallons of Coffee-Drink, after the rate of eight Ounces of Powder to a Gallon of Water, and drew a Spirit from it, and again distilled from that Spirit another, which he set by in his Study, till he could find some Opportunity to try its Effects. About eight Months pass’d before he had any Occasion to make use of it, when, to his great Surprize, he found at the bottom of the Bottle a Crustaceous or Petrified Matter, so very hard, and so strongly cemented together, that, notwithstanding his great Skill in Chymistry, he was not able to dissolve it. And this Case (I think) may well admit of farther Enquiry, and more especially if we consider the Volatile Spirits contain’d in Coffee to be one fourth part of the Weight of it, which appears by so much Loss in the common Way of roasting the Berries. I SHALL now proceed to give an Account of the Country it comes from, with some Observations relating to the Mercantine Part. THAT curious Gentleman, _Robert Balle_ Esq; furnish’d me with the following Relation, as he had it from a Person that had been upon the Place, and seen it grow: Coffee, _says he_, is not known to grow naturally in any Part of the World, but only in _Arabia Felix_, some few Days Journey Inland from _Moco_, in the Valleys of the _Great Mountains_, and near the City _Saana_, about twenty Degrees North-Latitude: The Prince of which, about eighty Years since, beat the _Turks_ in a Battel near that Place, freed himself from their Yoke under which he was before, and made himself Independent as at this Day, permitting great Freedom of Trade to all Nations. I SHALL here take occasion to remark, wherein lies the Difference between what we call _Turkey_ and _India Coffee_, and why the latter has not been esteemed so good as that we receive from _Turkey_. THE first of these is bought by the _Turks Merchants_, who go up into the Country where it grows, and there contract for the Fruit of Gardens, or so many Trees as they have occasion for, (as our Fruit-mongers do for Cherries in _Kent_.) When it is gathered and prepared, as I have already mentioned, they bring it upon Camels down to _Juda_, a Port at the bottom of the _Red-Sea_ (which is the Port to _Grand Cairo_) to be transported to _Suez_; from thence by Land, about seventy Miles, to _Grand Cairo_, and so down the _Nile_ to _Alexandria_, where it is ship’d off for _Asia_ or _Europe_.