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3. Specimens of the strata above and below the quarried stone. 



4. Any fossil shells, bones, fish, plants, insects, or other appearances of 

 organic remains large or small, found in or near the quarries, or amongst the 

 rubbish and watercourses of quarried spots. If specimens appear too large to 

 move, please to give a notice, with an eye-sketch, and estimate of the expence 

 of moving, and preserve it till a reply is sent. 



5. Specimens of the building stones or remarkable bricks used in any public 

 edifices, monuments or tombs, with the date of their erection if known, and a 

 note to say if exposed to weather or protected by stucco, paint, or roofs. 



6- Memoranda and specimens of any plants or animals destructive to mason- 

 ry, as boring worms and shells in water, and the like, with specimens of their 

 work. 



7. Ornamental or stucco-work : specimens of it, new or old, interior or ex- 

 terior, with the best account procurable of the materials, preparations, and 

 working of them. 



8. Specimens of stones and marbles, shells, &c. used for image or ornament- 

 making ; of earths for pottery, and varnishes of coloured earths of all sorts, 

 whether used as pigments or not. 



9. Specimens of peculiarly good materials used for roads, whether ancient 

 or modern, with prices, method of using them, and other Memoranda. 



10. Prices of all the above; rates of labour, carriage, &c. from the rough to 

 the wrought state, and all other statistical details as in the case of Mines and 

 Mineral products above mentioned. ( 



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Agricultural Geology. 



1. Specimens of soils of good, and the best quaiities, for all kinds of produce, 

 as sugar, cotton, tobacco, &c. 



2. Of infertile soils or veins of earth. 



3. Of the subsoil or rock. 



4. Of the stones scattered about these soils. 



5. Memoranda relative to the height of these soils above the water of wells in 

 the rains and dry season, and of its drainage, shelter, exposition, &c. 



6. Of any kind of earths, mud, or stones used as manures, as peats from the 

 jheels, kunkurs, &c. 



7. Of the deposists (fertile and infertile) left either by the common inunda- 

 tions or by violent floods, with memoranda of their effects on the cultivated soil 



6. Specimens from any separate spots, where gravel or stones are collected 

 in quantities after inundations or floods. 



9. Accounts of remarkable floods, and average heights of the rise of rivers, 



