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Volney’s Statiftical Queries. 
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38. What are the mines and metals ? 
39. What are the falts and falt-pits 
Cfalines) ? 
40. What is the difpofition and incli- 
nation of the different ftrata found in ~ 
wells and caverns? 
41. What are the oft common vege- 
tables, trees, fhrubs, plants, grains, &c.? 
42. What are the moft common ani- | 
mals, quadrupeds, birds, fifhes, infects, 
and reptiles ? ; 
43. Which of thefe are peculiar to the 
country ? 
44. What are the weights and fizes of 
thefe, compared with ours? 
Sect. Il. Political State. 
ART. 1. POPULATION. 
45. What is the phyfical conftitution 
of the inhabitants oi the country? their 
ufual height? are they fat or lean? 
46. What complexion ‘are they of? 
and what is the colour of their hair? 
47. What is their food, and how 
much do they eat daily? 
.48. What is their beverage? are they 
given to intoxication? 
49. What are their occupations? are 
they labourers, or vine-dreflers, or fhep- 
herds, or feamen,or do they inhabit towns? 
50 What are their accidental or ha- 
bitual maladies ? 
51. What are their characteriftic mo- 
ral qualities? are they lively or dull, 
witty or phlegmatic ? filent or garrulous? 
52. Whatis the total mafs of popula- 
tion? 
- 53. What is that of the towns, com- 
pared with that of the country? 
54. Do the inhabitants of the country 
live in villages, or are they difperfed in 
feparate farms? 
55. What is the ftate of the roads in 
fummer and winter? 
ART. II, AGRICULTURE. 
N. B. The methods of agriculture 
being different, according to the differ- 
ent diftriéts, the belt way of becoming 
acquainted with this fubje&t, is to ana- 
lyze two or three villages of different 
kinds; for example, a village in a plain, 
another on a mountain; one where the 
vine is cultivated, and another where 
farming alone is practifed. In each of 
thefe villages a farm fhould be completely 
analyzed. 
56. In any given village, what may 
be the amount of the inhabitants, men, 
women, “old men, and children? 
57. What are their refpective occupa- 
tions ? ° 
58. What quantity of land is culti- 
yated by the village? ) 
93. 
59. What are their meafures of length 
and capacity, compared with ours? 
60. What is the price of neceflaries, 
compared with that of labour? | 
61. Are they labourers, proprietors, or 
farmers? do they pay in money or kind ? 
62. How long do their leafes run, and 
what are the principal claufes in them ? 
63. How many farms are there, de- 
pendent on each village ? | v3 
64. What is the proportion between 
the good and bad land ? 
65. Which are the beft cultivated, 
large or fmall farms? 
66. Do the farms confift of home or 
outlying grounds ? _ 
67. Are the fields enclofed? and in 
what manner ? 
68. Are there any commons? and 
what do they produce? 
69. Is there any right of paffage 
through private property? 
Having determined refpeéting the de- 
tails of a farm, you are to enquire, 
70. The number of labourers, the 
mode in which they are lodged, the quan- 
tity of land and animals ? 
71. What is the rotation of crops? 
72. How many years in fucceffion are 
the lands cultivated, arid what fallow 
are they allowed? 
73. What grains are fown yearly? 
and what quantity is allowed to anacre? 
74. What are the periods for fowing. 
and reaping? 
75. What is the difference between 
the produce and the expences of every 
year? 
76. What is the quantity of land in 
natural and artificial graffes ? 
77. What quantity of land is requi- 
fite for the feeding a cow, ox, mule, horfe, 
fheep, &c.? How much*does each con- 
fume in a day? 
78. What are the animals ufed in 
agriculture? how are they harnefled? 
79. What are the inftruments of til- 
lage? 
80. What is the rent of the farm, 
compared with its eftimated produce? 
81. What is the intereft of money ? 
$2. How are the hufbandmen fed ? the 
amount per annum? and the value of 
the ftock ? 
83. What is the weight of a fleece, and 
of the meat under it ? 
84. What profit is fuppofed to accrue 
from a fheep? and alfo from an ewe ? 
85. What kind of manure is ufed? _ 
86. How does the family employ itfelf 
in‘the evenings? and whit fpecies of in- 
dustry does it prattile ? 
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