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tM-M QJJJEKIES 
About the fir ft Title. 
1. Whether the Country be Mountainous, Plain, or diftim 
guifh'd with Vales ? And in cafe it be mountainous, what kind 
of Hills they are 3 whether high , or low , or indifferently 
elevated? Whether almoft equal or very un-equal in height? 
Whether fruitful or barren 3 cold or temperate 3 rocky or not 5 
hollow or folid ? Whether they run in ridges , or feem confu- 
fedly placed 3 and, if the former, what way the ridges run. 
North and South, And whether they run any thing parallel 
to one another ? ' 
2. Whether the Country be barren or fruitful? And, if any 
way fruitful , what it produces-, and what it moil: abounds 
with ? 
3. What Cattle it nourifhes, and whether they have any fuch 
thing peculiar in point of bignefs , colour , fhape, longevity, 
fitnefs or unfitnefs to make good mea‘t, &c. as may be rather ad- 
feribed to the peculiar nature of the place, than to the barren- 
nefs of the Soyl , or other manifefS: caufes ? 
4. Whether the Natives , and other Inhabitants, live longer 
or fhorter than ordinary ? Whether they live more orlefs heal- 
thy ? Whether they befubjed to any Epidemical Difeafes , that 
may very probably be imputed to the Mines 3 and what thefe' 
Difeafes are 3 and what Remedies are found fuccefsfiil ? 
5. Whether*he Country be, or be not furnifh’d with Rivers, 
Brooks, Springs, and other Waters 3 and how thefe waters are 
conditioned ? 
& Whether the Air be dry or moift 3 hot or cold 3 clear or 
foggy 3 thick or thin 3 heavy or light 3 and efpecially, whe- 
ther the Weather be more or lefs variable than ordinarily 3 or 
whether it be fubjed to great and fudden changes, that may 
probably be imputed to the Mineral and Subterraneous Steamss 
and what they are? 
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