. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. stysgovernment, and to the disturbance of the peaceand quiet of the nation. The opinion of thejudges having been taken as to the legalityof the proceeding, they resolved, That retailingC. might be an innocent ; but as it was usedto nourish sedition, spread lies, and scandalize i/renttiten, it might also be a common nuisance . M. dela Roquementions that the use of C. was intro-duced into France between 1640 and 1600; and hefurther states that the first C-house for the saleof coffee in France was opened at
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. stysgovernment, and to the disturbance of the peaceand quiet of the nation. The opinion of thejudges having been taken as to the legalityof the proceeding, they resolved, That retailingC. might be an innocent ; but as it was usedto nourish sedition, spread lies, and scandalize i/renttiten, it might also be a common nuisance . M. dela Roquementions that the use of C. was intro-duced into France between 1640 and 1600; and hefurther states that the first C-house for the saleof coffee in France was opened at Marseilles, in1671. It was hardly, however, known, except toa few travellers wliohad visited the East, till 1G61),when it was introduced to the best society in Parisby Solyman Aga, ambassador from the GrandSeignior to Louis XI\. It immediately becamefashionable; and the taste for it having beenquickly diffused, a was opened for itssale in 1672, which, in no long time, had severalcompetitors. Some time between 1680 and 1690the Dutch planted in the vicinity of Batavia t-. Fig. 90 — CoFFE COFFEE 186 COFFEE beans they liad procured from Mocha. In lonothev xent a plant to Europe; and it was fromberries obtained from tliis plant that the first in the West Indies and Surinam werederived. The cultivation of C. is now generaltlirouThout all civilized regions of the tropicalworhh In point of quantity Brazil heads the listof countries, its annual produce prob-ably exceeding that of all other localities com-bined. It is ciilculated that no less than 630,000,-0(X» C. trees are at present flourishing tlirciuglioutthe empire. In 1878 more than ) ,each containing 160 lbs., were ;rtid Irom Bra_zil; and the U. States alone absorb upwards of200,0O0,IK)0 lbs. of Brazilian C. annually. Theother principal American localities for Costa Rica, Guatamala, Venezuela, Guiana,Vera, and Bolivia, with Jamaica, Cuba, IorloISico, and
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