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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], How coffee came to be used. (search)
g on the fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread through the adjacent countries, and in about two hundred years it had reached Paris. A single plant brought there in 1814 became the parent stock of all the French coffee plantations in the West Indies. The Dutch introduced it into Java and the East Indies, and the French and Spanish all over South America and the West Indies. The extent of the consumption now can hardly be realized.--The United States alone annually consumed it at the cosacent countries, and in about two hundred years it had reached Paris. A single plant brought there in 1814 became the parent stock of all the French coffee plantations in the West Indies. The Dutch introduced it into Java and the East Indies, and the French and Spanish all over South America and the West Indies. The extent of the consumption now can hardly be realized.--The United States alone annually consumed it at the cost, on its landing, of from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars.