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Cattle of a!! forts, and particularly, whether it have any 
Animals , that are not common or any thing, that is peculiar 
in thofe, that are fo* 
Th z Internal Productions or Concealments of the Earth are 
here underftood to be,the riches that ly hid under the Ground, 
and are not already referr’d to other Inquiries* 
Among thefe Subterraneal obfervations may be taken notice 
of, what forts of Minerals of any kind they want, as well as 
what they have ,* Then> what Quarries the Country affords } and 
the particular conditions both of the Quarries arid the Stones ; 
As alfo, how the Beds of Stone lye, in reference to North and 
South, 6 c. What Clays and Earths it affords, as Tobacco-pipe- 
clay, Maries, Fulters-earths, Earths for Potters wares, Bolus's 
and other medicated Earths : What other Minerals it yields, as 
Coals, Salt-Mines, or SaltTprings, Allom, Vitrial, Sulphur, 
6 c. What Mettals the Country yietds,and 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, 6c. 
To thefe General Articles of inquiries ( faith their Pro. 
pdfer ) Ihould be added ; i Inquiries about Traditions concern- 
ing all particular things, relating to that Country, as either pe- 
culiar to it, or at leaft, uncommon elfewhere* 1 1nquiries, that 
require Learning or Skill in the Anfwerer : to which Ihould be 
fubjoyned Propofals of ways, to enable men to give Anfwers to 
thefe more difficult inquiries, 
Thus far our Author, who ? as he has been pleafed to impart 
thefe General ( but yet very Cmprehenfive and greatly DireHive ) 
Articles^ fo, ’tis hoped from his own late intimation , that he 
will fhortly enlarge them with Particular and Subordinate ones. 
Thefe, in the mean time, were thought fit to be publifht,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 Philofophy 0 and the well* 
fare of Mankind. 
C € S’. 
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