The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831

MOCHA

ORIGIN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

VISIT TO CORFE CASTLE

NOTES OF A READER

KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE; OR, THE PLAIN WHY AND BECAUSE

WEATHER AT PARIS

BEER HOUSES

SAVINGS' BANKS

SOAP

AUTOGRAPHS

FINE ARTS

PANORAMA OF HOBART TOWN

INK LITHOGRAPHY

PHILANTHROPY

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

PUNCH AND JUDY

SANDY HARG

THE GATHERER

LEGEND CONCERNING THE PRESERVATION OF THE WELSH PEDIGREES PREVIOUS TO THE FLOOD

LUDICROUS BLUNDERS

PARLIAMENT OF BATTS

WITENAGEMOTES

ANNUAL OF SCIENCE

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“Bon pour la digestion,” said the young Princess Esterhazy, when sent to bed by her governess without her dinner; we say the same of coffee; and hope the reader will think the same of Mocha, or the place whence the finest quality is exported.

Mocha, the coffee-drinker need not be told, is a place of some importance on the borders of the Red Sea, in that part of Arabia termed “Felix,” or “Happy.” “The town looks white and cheerful, the houses lofty, and have a square, solid appearance; the roadstead is almost open, being only protected by two narrow spits of sand—on one of which is a round castle, and the other an insignificant fort.”

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“The town of Mocha is surrounded by a wall, which towards the sea is not above sixteen feet high, though on the land side it may, in some places, be thirty. In every part it is too thin to resist a cannon-ball, and the batteries along shore are unable to bear the shock of firing the cannon that are upon them.

“The climate of Mocha is extremely sultry,2 owing to its vicinity to the arid sands of Africa, over which the S.E. wind blows for so long a continuance, as not to be cooled in its short passage over the sea below the Straits Babel Mandel.

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