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A55156 Quær's to be propounded to the most ingenious of each county in my travels through England Plot, Robert, 1640-1696. 1674 (1674) Wing P2589; ESTC R221524 1,866 4

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Quaer's to be propounded to the most ingenious of each County in my Travels through England IS there any eminent Mathematitian in this County ha's He found out any thing new in his celestiall or other observations Know you of any thing unusuall in the Aire hereabout in the Winds or in any Tempest that ha's happend here Is there any place where the Winde breathes continually forth of the Earth or know you of any considerable Eccho in this County Enquire of Seamen Concerning Navigation of the most considerable Currents about England of Tides Eddy's of water of the Saltness of the Sea why not alike every where of the Gulf between England and Normandy of Lands Citys and Castles drowned by the Sea of any strange shells fishes Herbs Stones Sands or any other unusuall thing that they have observed on the cost of England Enquire of them for the stone Sagda Know you of any strange fountaines in this County such as break forth but now and then as against a dearth of Corne Warr Plague c Such as Ebb and flow with the Sea Have you any petrifying Waters ancient Aqueducts or Water-works Rivers that have any thing unusuall in them such as run underground have they any fish peculiar to them Is there any Medicinall waters of an unusuall colour smell or tast or any other thing strange attending Water Have you any Sands or Earth of use in this County such as sands for the Glass houses Marles fullers Earth Boles Peats Ochres Tobaccopipe clay 's Clay 's famous for brick or Tile or other Earths remarqueable for their colour weight smell tast Is there any Coles found here Is there any Mountaines in this County noted for any thing or Caves in the Earth Barr●wes or any thing unusuall attending the Land Have you any Minerals digged in this County as stone coale jet Amber or doth any Naphta or Petroleum swim on the water or distill from any rock hereabout Is there any Quicksilver Sulphur Arsenick Orpiment Calamy Stone Salt Allum vitriol or Niter dugg or made in this County Know you of any Stones not common in this County such as Hyacinths Emraulds Agats Jaspers Chrystalls Sparrs Marble Manganese Magnets Goldstones Is there any stones to be found here ruriously work't by nature either like any living creature viz. Oisters Cockles Escallops Serpents c or like inanimate things as starrs drops of water Suger Plumms figs a wheele a Cheese Letters of the Alphabet or Geomatricall figures Do you know of any place here about where wood is turned into stone or of any Quarrys of free stone Millstones Gravestones Have you any gold or Silver found in this County any Copper Iron Tin or Led ores any Bismuth Antimony Bell-metall Zink Chrysocolla or native green native blue Cinnaber Lignum fosssile Amianthus or fossile teeth or any kind of ore unknowne to you Know you of any strange or prodigious trees either in their growth fruits leaves or time of blossoming Is there any Tobacco Safforn Carrawayes Samphire Calamus Aromaticus or any other unusuall plant plentifully growing here Have you any vineyards Curious Gardens for rare plants fruits flowers c Ha's there any body here about found out any new improvement of Land or other curiosity in husbandry Know you of any body in this County that is studious in infects an observer of the works of Bees Silkwormes Know you of any strange Birds or fishes that are peculiar to this County or of others that are never found in it Know you of any strange beast Sheep Dog Hog Horse c of any unusual quality or mixt generation of a great Age or Wonderfull bigness Know you of any strange qualified Man of any body that has been the Inventor of any profitable or curious Art Know you of any prodigious births numerous ofsprings Hermaphrodites Men extreamly alike Men of prodigious Memorys of extraordinary stature either in excesse or defect of unusuall fasting sleep or Dreames that have strangely come to passe of men of extreame Age of sudden deaths of any that have been dead and raised to life againe Know you of any thing remarqueable that attends a family in their lives or death Is there any ancient sepulchers of men of Gigantick stature Roman Generalls or others that are notable Ha's there been any certain apparition or Know you of any Monstruous creatures to be seen in this Countrey any strange Customs now in use in this place or any strange confusion in Consanguinity or affinity Doe you know of any Extraordinary Engines Stupendous or curious building either in the whole or parts Is there any body here that ha's any thing peculiar to Himself in Clockwork painting Graveing Etching dying Weaving or any other handicraft Finde you hereabout any ancient Mony Urnes lamps Lachrymatorys or other ancient Brittish Roman or Saxon antiquitys and whether any Gentleman hereabout have any such in his posssion What words do you know peculiar to this County Is there any person hereabout that has any ancient Manuscript bookes or any other rarity's of Antiquity Finally you are desired that whatever you meet with worthy notice in your reading or converse in the World upon any of these subjects to take notice of it and transmitt it to the undertaker of this define accordingly as you shall be directed for which all persons shall receive due acknowledgment according to the merrits of the information by Their faithful Servant R. P.