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Ahout the firjl Title. 
f. Whether the Country be Mountainous^ Plain, or diftia"- 
guiflied with Vales ? And in cafe it be mountainous^what kind 
of Hills they are ^ whether highj or low, or indifferently ele« 
vated r' Whether almofl equals or very unequal in height f 
Whether fruitful or barren; cold or temperatej rocky or not ^ 
hollow or folid ? Whether they run in ridges or feem confu- 
fedly placed j and, iftheformer, what way the ridges run, 
North and South, &c. And whether they run any thing paraL 
lei to one another <? 
2. Whether the Country be barren or fruitful ? And^ if any 
way fruitful , what it produces ^ and what it mofl abounds 
withf 
3. What Cattle ft nouriflieSjand whether they have any fuch 
thing peculiar in poirit^of bignefsj colour, lliape, longsevity ^ 
fitnefs or unfitnefs to mike good meat^^^-^as may b^ rather ad- 
fcribed to the peculiar nature of the place, than to the barren- 
nefs of the SoyI, or other manifefi caufes ? 
4. Whether the Natives, and other Inhabitants^ live longer 
or iliorter than ordinary f Whether they live more or iefs heal- 
thy f Whether they be fubje(!^: to any Epidemical Difeafes^that 
may very probably be imputed to the Mines ; and what thefe 
Difeafcs are ; and what remedies arc found fuccefsfu! ? 
Whether the Country be, or be not furnifhed with Ri- 
vers , Brooksj Springs, and other Waters ; and how thefe wa* 
ters are conditioned > 
6. Whether the Air be dry or moifl: ; hot or cold ; clear or 
foggy , thick or thin , heavy or light ; and efpecially^ whether 
the Weather be more or lefs variable than ordinarily ^ or whe- 
ther it be fubjed to great and fudden changes that may pro- 
bably be imputed to the Mineral and Subterraneous S!:earBis -> 
and what they arc f 
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