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INTRODUCTION. 
Colton , Pepper , Saiulal-wood , a/?c/ Cardamoms . 
“ Of the cultivation and preparation of these valuable articles 
you should endeavour to gain the fullest and most accurate 
accounts, as well as of the nature and extent of the trade carried 
on in them ; the usages which may have obtained concerning 
them ; the causes, if any there may be, which may seem to ob- 
struct improvement in quality, or extension in produce, of either 
of them ; and the means to your judgment most likely to remove 
these causes.” 
Mines , Quarries , Minerals , and Mineral Springs. 
4 ‘ The mines and quarries, as objects of particular concern, you 
should make a subject of more minute investigation, in so far as 
relates to their produce ; the mode of working them ; the state 
of the people employed in them, as well in respect to the con- 
dition of their service as to their treatment, or the price of their 
labour. In regard to the Minerals and Mineral Springs, they 
should be examined 'with attention, and such of them analyzed 
as may be esteemed medicinal by the people themselves, or you 
may judge to be so.” 
Manufactures and Manufacturers. 
“ The state of the manufactures is a farther object of conse- 
quence, especially of those which are exported , you should 
therefore procure as exact an account of the different kinds, as 
may be practicable, and of the ability of the country itself to 
furnish the materials used m them ; and you should ascei tain 
-what proportion, if any, is necessary to be imported horn otliei 
countries ; from what countries, and under what advantages or 
