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ture, to point out, and encourage the establKhment of 

 such other manufactures, as are, on this account, peculiar- 

 ly adapted to this country ? 



" 4. It is obvious that Newcastle enjoys peculiar ad- 

 vantages for chemical iavestigations, on account of the 

 cheapnefs of fuel, glafs, fire clay, wrought and cast iron, 

 implements, yc. idc. ; it may, therefore, be expected that 

 persons who have a turn for inquiry will be induced to 

 apply to these pursuits j especially as they may have an 

 opportunity of seeing many chemical procefses, upon a 

 large scale, at the works of various ingenious persons resi- 

 ding in this town and neighbourhood. 



" II. It will be a worthy object of such a society to in» 

 quire, how far the country is still improveab/e. Probably 

 many mineral treasures may yet be discovered, which 

 have hitherto eluded the researches of the curious *. 

 Hints for the advancement of agriculture might pofsibly 

 come even from such a society 5 or at least, as, perhaps, 

 indeed, is more likely, it might receive entertainment 

 and instruction from the communications of ingenious men 

 engaged in the various branches of this most important 

 national concern. Schemes for facilitating communica- 

 tion by means of inland navigation have, of late, engaged 

 much of the public attention 5 and something of this 

 kind h^s even been thought practicable here. A so- 

 ciety of this nature will furnifti a proper place for can- 

 vafsing the arguments for and against such underta* 

 kings. 



*' More immediately within its province, under this 

 head, would be the analysis of various mineral waters 

 which have been found within this district ; as the sul- 



* Many valuable hints on this subject may perhaps be ^atherei 

 from Wallis's History of NijrthumberUnd, 



