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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Natural History of Chocolate, by D. de Quelus, Translated by R. Brookes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE*** E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Louise Pryor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) 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 In this transcription, the asterisks have been replaced by the number of the page on which the footnote appears. Contractions (such as atq; for atque) have not been expanded. 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
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