9. What Arts or Trades they have worth Learning?

10. Whether there be such a Tree about _Damascus_, call'd _Mouslat_, which

every year about the Month of _December_ is cut down close by the root, and

within four or five Months time shoots up again apace, bringing forth

Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit also, and bearing but one Apple (an excellent

Fruit) at once?

11. Whether about _Reame_ in the Southern part of _Arabia Foelix_, there be

Grapes without any grains? And whether the people in that Country live,

many of them, to a hundred and twenty years, in good health?

12. Whether in _Candia_ there be no poysonous Creatures; and whether those

Serpents, that are there, are without poyson?

13. Whether all Fruits, Herbs, Earth, Fountains, are naturally saltish in

the Isle of _Cyprus_? And whether those parts of this Isle, which abound in

_Cyprus-trees_, are more or less healthful, than others?

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