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are they mineral or vegetable ? the manner of pre- 

 paring and applying them, with the advantages and 

 difadvantages of each fort compared with ours ; 

 particularly the materials, machines and methods 

 employed by the Indians for dying, ftaining, and 

 printing their chintzes, calicoes, &c. 



4. The wood and timber ufed for fhip build- 

 ing ; the form and conftruclion of the mips ; the 

 wood employed for mafts; the fuccedanea for 

 oakum, ropes, cables, fails, pullies, Sec. with the 

 comparative advantages and difadvantages. 



5. The means devifed for catching quadrupeds, 

 birds, fifties, (hells, Sec. either for food, or to 

 prevent the increafe of fuch as are noxious to the 

 people or their plantations ; are any animals made 

 tame and employed to catch others, or are any 

 methods ufed for killing or inebriating them ? 



6. The materials of clothing ; if animal fkins, 

 the manner of dreffing them ; if the hair of ani- 

 mals, or the threads of certain infefts, the method 

 of fpinning, twilling and weaving fuch fubftan- 

 ces ; if vegetables, how are they cultivated, drefT- 

 ed, fpun, and manufactured ? The cut and make 

 of the dreffes in general, with the advantages and 

 difadvantages of each particular part. 



7. The various obje&s of commerce in gene- 

 ral, the growth and manufacture of each article, 

 with the names by which it is known, and it's ufes, 

 when defigned only for inland trade ; the price of 

 labour, and the number of people employed in each 

 department. 



8. It is a common opinion, that large quanti- 

 ties of remnants and rags of all kinds of fcarlet 



cloth, 



