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alfo, whether the Mountains lye {battered, or in ridges , and* 
whether thofe run North and South, or Eaft and Weft, 
What Promontories, fiery or fmoaking Hills, &c. the Coun- 
try has 3 or hath not : Whether the Country be coherent, or 
much broken into Hands. What the Magnetical Declination is 
in feveral places, and the Variations of that Declination in the 
fame place ( and; if either of thofe be very confiderable, then, 
what circumftances may affift one togtiefs at theReafon as 
Subterraneal fires, the Vicinity of Iron-mines, ) whatthe 
Nature of theSoyle is, whether Clays, Sandy, &c. or good 
Mouldy and what Grains, Fruits, and other Vegetables, do 
the moft naturally agree with it: As alfo, by what particular 
Arts and Induftries the Inhabitants improve the Advantages, 
and remedy the Inconveniences of their Soy! : What hidden 
Qualities the Soyl may have ( as that of Inland^ againft Veno 
snous Beaft$,$r.) 
Secondly , above the ignobler productions of the Earth, there 
muft be a careful account given of the Inhabitants themfelves, 
both Natives and Strangers , that have been long fettled there : 
And in particular, their Stature, Shape, Colour, Features* 
Strength, Agility, Beauty (or the want of it) Complexions* 
Hair, Dye c, Inclinations, and Cuftoms that feem not due to 
Education. As to their Women (befides the other things) may 
be obferved their Fraitfulnefs or Barrennefs 5 their hard or 
eafy Labour, &c. And both in Women and Men muft be ta- 
ken notice of what difeafes they are fubjedt to, and in thefts 
whether there be any fymptome, or any other Circumftaace a 
that is unufual and remarkable. 
As to the External Produdf ions of the Earth, the Inquiries 
may be fuch as thefe : What Grades, Grains, Herbs, ( Gar- 
den and Wild ) Flowers, Fruit-trees, Timber- trees (efpecia lly 
spy Trees, whofe wood is confiderable) Coppices, Groves, 
Woods, FbrreftS, t3e. the Country has or wants : What pecu- 
liarities are obfervable in any of them : What Soyles they moft 
like or difiike ; and with what Culture they thrive beft. What 
jinimds the Country has or wants, both as to wild Beafts* 
Hawks, and other >Bird^ of Prey > and as to Poultrey, and 
Cattle, 
