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     A legend says the coffee plant first grew in Kaffa, a province in south Ethiopia, where it was discovered by a goatherd called Kaldi about the year 850. Kaldi's goats were reported to have skipped and pranced in a strange manner after feeding on an evergreen plant. The goatherd, so the story goes, tried some of the berries himself and excitedly dashed to the nearest  town to tell of his find, which was called coffee after the name of the province. Another theory is that the word coffee is probably derived from the Arabic qahwah. Certainly coffee was introduced into Europe from back, it is possible to make a record of the changes in depth. Mechanical, acoustical and electronic instruments have pic­tured the ocean floor not as a vast plain but as a series of mountain ranges, valleys, peaks and can­yons. Some of the mountains are far higher than most of those on land and the deepest part of the ocean is much farther below sea level than the highest land moun...