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Title: The Natural History of Chocolate
Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit

Author: D. de Quelus

Release Date: February 12, 2008 [eBook #24588]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

Spelling is inconsistent and has been neither modernised nor
corrected.

In the original, footnotes are marked with lower case letters,
numbers, or asterisks. In this transcription, the asterisks
have been replaced by the number of the page on which the
footnote appears.

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THE
Natural HISTORY
OF
CHOCOLATE:

BEING

A Distinct and Particular Account of the COCOA-TREE, its Growth and
Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal
Vertues of its Fruit.

Wherein the Errors of those who have wrote upon this Subject are
discover'd; the Best Way of Making CHOCOLATE is explain'd; and
several Uncommon MEDICINES drawn from it, are communicated.

_Translated from the last EDITION of the _French_,
_By_ R. BROOKES, M. D._

The SECOND EDITION.

_LONDON:_

Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_.
M DCC.XXX.

PREFACE

If the Merit of a Natural History depends upon the Truth of the Facts
which are brought to support it, then an unprejudiced Eye-Witness is
more proper to write it, than any other Person; and I dare even flatter
myself, that this will not be disagreeable to the Publick
notwithstanding its Resemblance to the particular Treatises of
_Colmenero_[1], _Dufour_[2], and several others who have wrote upon the
same Subject. Upon examination, so great a Difference will appear, that
no one can justly