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6. What method they observe in breeding those excellent horses, they are 

 so much famed for ? 



7. Whether they be so skilful in poisoning as is said; and how their poisons 

 are curable ? 



8. How the Annenians keep meat fresh and sweet so long? 

 Q. What arts or trades have they worth learning ? 



10. Whether there be a tree about Damascus, called mouslac, which every 

 year about the month of December is cut down close by the root, and within 

 four or five months shoots up again, bringing forth leaves, flowers and fruit, 

 and bearing but one apple at a time ? 



11. Whether about Reame, in the southern part of Arabia Felix, there be 

 grapes without any grains ? And whether the people in that country live, many 

 of them, to 120 years in good health ? 



12. Whether in Candia there be no poisonous creatures ; and whether the 

 serpents there are without poison ? 



13. Whether all fruits, herbs, earth, fountains, are naturally saltish in the 

 isle of Cyprus ? And whether those parts of this isle, which abound in Cyprus 

 trees, are more or less healthful ? 



14. What store of amianthus in Cyprus ; and how it is worked? 



15. Whether mummies be found in the sands of Arabia, that are the dried 

 flesh of men buried in those sandy deserts in travelling ? And in what respects 

 they differ from the embalmed ones ? 



16. Whether the parts about the city of Constantinople or Asia Minor be 

 as subject to earthquakes now as formerly ? And whether the eastern winds do 

 not plague the said city with mists, and cause that inconstancy of weather it is 

 subject to ? 



1 7 . Whether the earthquakes in Zant and Cephalonia be so frequent, as 

 now and then to happen nine or ten times a month ? And whether these isles 

 be not very cavernous ? 



18. What is the height of mount Caucasus, its position, temperament, &c.? 



19. With what declivity the water runs out of the Euxine Sea into the Pro- 

 pontis ? With what depth ? And if the many tides and eddies called Euripi 

 have any certain periods ? 



20. Whether the Caspian empties itself into the Euxine sea by any passage 

 under ground ? 



21. By what inland passages they go to China ? 



22. Whether in the aqueducts they line the inside with as good plaster as 

 the ancients did ? and how it is made ? 



23. To inquire after those excellent works of antiquity with which that 



