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Add to this , lastly , the Chapter Coffee-house , in St . Paul ' s churchyard , with its wits and booksellers , and on Sunday morning its " jobbing parsons , " who did duty occasionally for a guinea , or whatever they could get , sometimes three half-crowns and a pint of sherry wine .
Other coffee-louses there were of some note ; among them the floating coffee-house on the Thames , famous in the eighteenth century ; Jonathan ' s , Robin ' s , and Garraway ' s in Change-alley , which was the resort of speculators who found it more profitable to be off than on ' Change . The last called forth from Dean Swift the following lines : —
" Subscribers here by thousands float , And jostle one another down ; Each paddling in his leafy boat , And here they fish for gold and drown . " ISfow buried in the depths below , Kow mounted up to Heav ' n again , They reel and stagger to and fro , At their wits' end like drunken men .
" Meantime secure on Garraway cliffs , A savage race , by shipwrecks fed , Lie waiting for the foundered skiffs , And strip the bodies of the dead . "
There are now in London more than two thousand coffee-houses ; several are visited daily by eight hundred persons , and one by double that number . In these houses there are various journals , magazines , and reviews ; ani many , as Peel's Coffee-house , possess a file of very old newspapers . Coffee , as many of our readers are doubtless aware , is a decoction
formed from the berries of the caffea Arabica , which are prepared by roasting . The coffee tree , Bruce , the great traveller , said , was a native of Abyssinia , and found wild from Caffa to the Nile . From Africa coffee passed into Arabia , and there are various stories respecting its introduction . One is , that it was discovered by the
prior of a monastery , who observed the effect which it had upon goats browsing on the Mils . A decoction of these berries was therefore given to the monks of this monastery to keep them awake during the performances of midnight services . Another story is told in an Arabian manuscript ( Bees' Cyclopaedia ) in the Bibliotheque Rationale . The author of this record attributes the introduction of coffee into
Arabia to Megaledin , who was about the middle of the fifteenth century Mufti of Aden . The two earliest English travellers who noticed , on their return from the East , coffee , were Biddulph and
William Einch . The former , writing in 1603 , says : " The Turks have for their most common drink coffee ; which is a black kind of drink , made of a kind of pulse ,, like pease , called coava ; " the latter remarks that " tlie people in the island of Socotara have for their best entertainment a china dish of eobo , a black bitterish drink , made
of a berry like a bay-berry , brought from Mecca , sipped off hot . " A vol . i . 4 s
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Add to this , lastly , the Chapter Coffee-house , in St . Paul ' s churchyard , with its wits and booksellers , and on Sunday morning its " jobbing parsons , " who did duty occasionally for a guinea , or whatever they could get , sometimes three half-crowns and a pint of sherry wine .
Other coffee-louses there were of some note ; among them the floating coffee-house on the Thames , famous in the eighteenth century ; Jonathan ' s , Robin ' s , and Garraway ' s in Change-alley , which was the resort of speculators who found it more profitable to be off than on ' Change . The last called forth from Dean Swift the following lines : —
" Subscribers here by thousands float , And jostle one another down ; Each paddling in his leafy boat , And here they fish for gold and drown . " ISfow buried in the depths below , Kow mounted up to Heav ' n again , They reel and stagger to and fro , At their wits' end like drunken men .
" Meantime secure on Garraway cliffs , A savage race , by shipwrecks fed , Lie waiting for the foundered skiffs , And strip the bodies of the dead . "
There are now in London more than two thousand coffee-houses ; several are visited daily by eight hundred persons , and one by double that number . In these houses there are various journals , magazines , and reviews ; ani many , as Peel's Coffee-house , possess a file of very old newspapers . Coffee , as many of our readers are doubtless aware , is a decoction
formed from the berries of the caffea Arabica , which are prepared by roasting . The coffee tree , Bruce , the great traveller , said , was a native of Abyssinia , and found wild from Caffa to the Nile . From Africa coffee passed into Arabia , and there are various stories respecting its introduction . One is , that it was discovered by the
prior of a monastery , who observed the effect which it had upon goats browsing on the Mils . A decoction of these berries was therefore given to the monks of this monastery to keep them awake during the performances of midnight services . Another story is told in an Arabian manuscript ( Bees' Cyclopaedia ) in the Bibliotheque Rationale . The author of this record attributes the introduction of coffee into
Arabia to Megaledin , who was about the middle of the fifteenth century Mufti of Aden . The two earliest English travellers who noticed , on their return from the East , coffee , were Biddulph and
William Einch . The former , writing in 1603 , says : " The Turks have for their most common drink coffee ; which is a black kind of drink , made of a kind of pulse ,, like pease , called coava ; " the latter remarks that " tlie people in the island of Socotara have for their best entertainment a china dish of eobo , a black bitterish drink , made
of a berry like a bay-berry , brought from Mecca , sipped off hot . " A vol . i . 4 s