Cattle of all forts, and particularly, whether it have any 
Animals, that are not commoDj or any thing, that is peculiar 
in thofe, that are fo. 
The Imrnal Pfodudions or Concealments of the Earth ar€ 
here underftood ro be,the riches that ly hid under the Groundj 
and arc not already referr d to other Inquiries* 
Among thefe Subtsrraneal obfervations may be taken notice 
of, what forts of Minerals of any kind they want, as well as 
what they have > Then^ vfh^t Quarries the Country affords,and 
the particular conditions both of the Quarries and the Stones : 
As alio, how the Beds of Stone lyej in reference to North and 
South, What Clays and Earths it affords,as Tobacco-pipe- 
clay, Maries, Fullers-earths, Earths for Potters wares, Bolus's 
and other medicated Earths : What other Minerals it yields, as 
Coals, Salt-Mincs, or Salt.fprings, Allom, Vitrial, Sulphur, 
^c. WhatMettals the Country yieldsjand a defcription of the 
Mines, their number, fcituation, depth, figns, waters, damps, 
quantities of ore, goodnefs of ore, extraneous things and ways 
of reducing their ores into Mettals, 
To thefe General Articles of inquiries ( faith their Prf- 
pofir^ fliould be added j i Inquiries about Traditions concern- 
ing all particular things, relating to that Country, as either pe- 
culiar to it, or at leaft, uncommon elfewhere* 2 Inquiries, that 
require Learning or S\ill in the Anfwerer : to which fliould be 
iubjoyned Propofals of ways, to enable men to give Anfwers to 
tbcfe more difficult inquiries. 
Thus far our Author, whoj as he has been pleafed to impart 
thefe General ( but yet very Cemprehen/ve and greatly DireBive ) 
Articles^ fo, 'tis hoped from his own late intimation , that he 
will fliortly enlarge them with Particular and Subordinate ones. 
Thefe,in the mean time.were thought fit to be publiflit^that the 
Inquifitive and Curious,might,by fuch an Affiftance, be invited 
not to delay their fearches of matters, that are fo highly con. 
ducive to the improvement of True Fhilofophy^ and the well* 
isitQ oi Manl^nd. 
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