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SECT. III. 



Metereological Observations y Food> Way of Liv~ 

 ingy Animal CEconomy in general, &c. 



For every man to native cuftom prone, 

 Conforms and models life to that alone. 



Goldsmith. 



IT is always fatisfaftory to have regular meteo- 

 rological accounts by the afliftance of a good 

 barometer and thermometer; and to obferve at 

 the fame time the quarter the wind blows from^ 

 and it's degree or violence ; the quantity of rain 

 and fnow by inches ; the fize of halftones ; the 

 appearance of aerial phenomena, as aurora bore- 

 alis, or northern lights, fiery globes, halos or 

 bright circles round the fun and moon ; with the 

 effects likewife of thunder ftorms, lightning, &c. 



2. The traveller mould alfo remark the fuccef- 

 lion of feafons, and the various fruits and pro- 

 ductions of each country ; the times of fowing 

 or planting, as well as of harveft, or of reaping 

 the grain, See. the budding or flowering of trees, 

 or fhrubs. The food of the inhabitants, and the 

 preparation of it previous to it's ufe. 



3. Some account might be collected of the gene- 

 ral prevailing difeafes in different feafons, and 

 the caufes producing the fame, or the remedies 

 employed for curing them, and the methods in 

 which remedies are adminiftered. 



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