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SECT. III. 



Metereological Obfervations, Food, Way of 

 Living, Animal O economy in general, &c. 



For every man to native cuftom prone, 

 Conforms and models life to that alone. 



Goldsmith. 



IT is always fatisfactory to have regular me- 

 teorological accounts by the afliftance of a 

 good barometer and thermometer ; and to ob- 

 ferve at the fame time the quarter the wind 

 blows from, and its degree or violence the 

 quantity of rain and fnow by inches y the fize 

 of hailftones ; the appearance of aereal pheno?- 

 mena, as auroras boreales or northern lights, 

 fiery globes, halos or bright circles round the 

 fun and moon ; with the effects likewife of 

 thunder ftorms, lightening, &c. 



2. The traveller mould aifo remark the figc* 

 ceffion of feafons, and the various fruits and 

 productions of each country •> the times of 

 lowing or planting, as well as of harveft, or of 

 reaping the grain, &c. the budding or flower- 

 ing of trees, or ilirubs. The food of the jn-r 

 habitants, and the preparation of it previous, tQ 

 its ufe. 



3. Some account might be collected of the 

 general prevailing difeafes in different feafons, 

 and the caufes producing the fame, or the re- 

 medies employed for curing them, and th§ 

 methods in which fuch remedies are admini- 

 ftered, 



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