' "*• About the Air may be obfervM, its Temperature, as to 
the £rft four Qualities ( commonly fo call’d ) and the Mea- 
fores ©f them : its Weight, Clearnefs, Refractive power : its 
Sublety or Grofsnefs .* its*abounding with, or wanting an Efa- 
tine Salt : its variations according to the feafons of "the year, 
and the times of the day ; What duration the feveral kinds of 
V V eather ufually have : What Meteors it is moft or leaft wont 
to breed 3 and in what order they are generated $ and how 
long they ufually laft; Efpecially, what Winds it is fubje(ft to ; 
whether any of them belated and ordinary, ;&c. What di- 
leafes are Epidemical, that are fuppofed to flow from the Air : 
What other difeafes,, wherein that hath a fhare, the Countrey 
Isfubjedt to; the Plague and Contagious fickneftes : What is 
the ufual falubrity or infalubrity of the Air 5 and with what 
Conftitutions it agrees better or worfe, than others. 
3 * About the W zter, may be obferv'd, the Sea, its Depth, de» 
gree of Saltnefs, lydes, Currents, $ic. Next, Rivers, their 
Bignefs Length, Courfe,. Inundations, Goodnefs, Levity 
(or their Contraries ) of W aters, &c. Then , Lakes, Ponds, 
Springs, and efpecially Mineral waters, their Kinds, Quali** 
ties 3 Vertues,and how examined. To the Waters belong alfo 
Fifhes , what kinds of them (whether Salt or Frefh-water fifh 3 
are to be found in the Country 5 their Store, Bignefs, 
Goodnefs, Seafons, Haunts, Peculiarities of any kind, and 
the wayes of taking them, efpecially thofe that are not purely 
Mechanical. 
4. In the Earth , may be obferved, 
1 , It {elf. 
2 . I ts Inhabit ants , and its VroduUims , and ihefe External^ 
and Internal '. 
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Firfty in the Earth it felf, may be obferv'd, its dimen fions, 
fcituation,Eaft, Weft, North, and South : its Figure, its Plains, 
and Valleys, and their Extent ; its Hills and Mountains, and 
the height of the talleft, both in reference to the neighbouring 
Valleys or Plains, and in reference to the Level of the Sea : As 
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