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of preparing and applying them, with the ad- 

 vantages and difadvantages of each fort com- 

 pared with ours ; particularly the materials, 

 machines and methods employed by the Indians 

 for dying, ftaining and printing their chintzes, 

 callicoes, &c. 



4. The wood and timber ufed for (hip build- 

 ing ; the form and conftruction of the mips ; 

 the wood employed for mails; the fuccedanea 

 for oakum, ropes, cables, fails, pulhes, &c, 

 with the comparative advantages and difadvan- 

 tages. 



5. The means devized for catching qua- 

 drupeds, birds, fifhes, fhells, &c. 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 cloathing ; if animal 

 Ikins, the manner of drefling them ; if the hair 

 of animals, or the threads of certain infects, 

 the method of fpinning, twifting and weaving 

 fuch fubftances ; if vegetables, how are they 

 cultivated, dreffed, fpun and manufactured ? 

 The cut and make of the drelfes in general, 

 with the advantages and difadvantages of each 

 particular part. 



7. The various objects of commerce in gene- 

 ral, the growth and manufacture of each arti- 

 cle, with the names by which it is known, and 

 its ufes when defigned only for inland trade ; 

 the price of labor, and the number of people 

 employed in each department. 



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