WE fell several Sorts of Chocolate, which have no other Difference but according to their Fineness and Goodness, the Drugs that compose 'em, and the Countries where they are made. But the best Chocolate, and the finest, is what we make now at Paris, especially when it is made with the largest Carack Nut, and wrought up with the finest Sugar, good Cinnamon, and the purest and best Vanilla's: In short, when it is made by an honest Man, who understands how to prepare it, and will neither spare Labour nor Cost; for it is impossible to afford good Chocolate at a common Price; and the most of those who sell their Chocolate at such an easy Rate, could scarcely buy the fine Sugar we make use of at the same Price. Altho' some still cry up the West-Inda, Spanish, Portugal, and St. Malo's Chocolate, at this time there is not Place in the World where they make better Chocolate than at Paris. I did not think it proper to give you the Composition here, since there are so many Books that treat of it, and the Compositions are so various, that every one is for pleasing his own Fancy. Nevertheless, I cannot forbear acquainting you with what is propos'd by the Sieur Blegny, in his Book, who mentions the Flower of Orejevalla, to be added to the Composition, because it is a Drug which I believe to be imaginary, as not being able to know what it was, after the most diligent Search I could make. And the Sieur Blegny, who calls himself the Author of that little Book which I have just mention'd, had reason to say he could not meet with it among the Druggists, for he could not give me any Account of it. When I ask'd him, before a certain Person, what the Orejevalla Flower was, he told me it was what went into the Composition of the American or Indian Chocolate which he had seen in several Books. As to the Achiotl, that is nothing else but what we call the Rocou, which is not made as the said Author says, but as it is set forth in its proper Place in this Treatise; and after knowing that the Achiotl, was the Rocou, there are very few Grocers but could have furnished him with it, and he needed not have put it in his Book, that he could not meet with it at the Druggists.