Inquiries for Perlia. 
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X. 
7 Hat are chiefly the prefent Studies of the Per (tans $ and 
» what Kind of Learning they now excel! in f 
_ Wliat other Trades or Pradices , befides Silk- and Tapiflrt- 
making , they are skilled in 1 J 
3 * Whether, there being already good Defcriptions in Words 
of the Excellent Pictures and Bafle Relieves , that are about Per 
fepolis at Chimilnar , yet none very particular 3 fome may not be 
found fufliciently skill'd , in thofe parts , that might be engaged to 
make a Draught of the Place and the Stories there pi&ured and 
carved < 
4. How they make that Plaifter , wherewith in thofe parts 
and in India they line then Tanks or Ci ferns , and which, when 
dry , fhines like Marble , and is much hard er 1 
Other Queries ^ concerningthe Air, Waters, Minerals, Ve- 
getables^ Animals , drc. peculiar to Ptrfia ? may be taken out of 
thofe General Beads of Inquiries , for a Natural Hifiory of a C cun- 
trey , printed in Numb.. 1 1. and out of thofe Articles of Inquiries 
concerning Mines , publifbt in Numb. 19. to which we refer the 
Header, 
As to the Inquiries proper for Turkey, they alfo are already. .pub- 
lic k, See Numb, 20. 
Inquiries 
For Virginia and the Bermudas. 
*. /^Gncerning the Varieties of Earths h ”tis faid, "thereisone 
kind of txGummy confidence, white and cleer: Another, 
white, and fo light, that it fwims upon water : Another, red, 
call’d V/apergh , like Terra Sigillata . Qua:re , what other confi- 
derable kinds are there < And to fend over a parcel of each. 
2. What conflderable Minerals, Stones, Bitumens*, Tin&ures 
Drugs ? 
.3. What hot Baths , and of what Medicinal ufe f 
' 4, What is the Original of thofe large Navigable Rivers , 
which 
