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XXI. ^ueHes fent to a Friend in Conflan- 
tinople; by Dr. Maty, F, R. S\ ; W an- 
fwered by his Excellency James Porter, 
Efq\ his IdajeJly s Ambajj^ador at Con- 
ftantinople, and F. R, S, 
The Series propofed were the Seven following : 
17JJ* ^110 w with any 
V V certainty, how many people 
are pnerally carried off by the plague at Conftanti- 
nople ? 
2. Whether the number of inhabitants in that 
capital may be afcertained ? 
3. Whether what has been advanced by fome 
travellers, and from them afllimed by writers on po- 
litics,^ be true, that there are more women than men 
born in the eaft ? 
4. Whether plurality of wives is in faft, as it was 
confidently affirmed to be, in the order of nature 
favourable to the increafe of mankind ? ’ 
5. What is the adlual {fate of inoculation in the 
call r 
fi. What IS become of the printing-houfe at Con- 
ftantmople ? and are there any original maps of 
the Turkilh dominions, drawn from adlual furveys ? 
7. What fort of learning is cultivated among the 
Oreeks, and among the Turks ? 
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