Inquiries 
For ./Egypt, by Thomas Henftmv Efq° t 
i b % \ /Hether it rain there at any time, and if fo, what time of 
V V Year ? Whether Rain .make the Air wholfom* o; 
ptftilential, or otherwife unhealthful ? 
2, To confider the Niter that is commonly fold there, and what 
affinity there is betwixt that, and our common S hit feeter: to try by 
diffolving it in warm Water, filtring it well, then boyiing almoft half 
away, and putting the remainder in an earthen Pan, and fetting 
it in a cool place for two dayes, to fee whether it will fhoot 
into Chryftals of tmr. To fend fome quantity of it into 
Europe, 
%. Whether the Earth of tJEgypt, adjoyning to the River Nilns, 
preferv’d and weigh’d daily , keeps the fame weight, till the 
17 th of and then grows daily heavier with the increafe of the 
River, ? 
4. Whether, if the Plague be never fagreat before,yet onthe 
1 fir ft day of the Niles increafe, it not onljyfoeafeth,but abfolute- 
ly ceafeth, not one dying of it after? 
5. To inquire, particularly into the manner of Hatching Eggs in 
*s&gypt $ How the Camel-dung is prepar’d, wherein they are laid ? 
how often the Eggs are turn’d ? how cover’d? Whether they hatch 
in Twenty one dayes, as they do with us under a Hen ? Whether 
ithe Chickens be as perfect as ours ? If imperfedl, Whether that 
may not happen to them by rough handling, while they are re- 
. mov’d, being very tender s out of the place where they are hatch’d? 
To take the defign of the manner, how by the Pipes the heat is 
< convey’d into feveral Rooms., How they treat them betwixt the 
•time of their hatching, and taking away by the Owners ? Whether 
they do not alfo ufe to hatch Eggs under Hens f 
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