| Description | A list of 36 questions regarding Barbary, 'recommended by the Royal Society'. The first is 'What is the temperature of the air?' Answers to the queries are in records CLP/19/75 to CLP/19/77. 'Though many relations and descriptions of Turky be extant in print, yet they leave in many a desire of fuller information in the following particulars, lately drawn up, for the most part by Mr. H. and recommended to an ingeniuos gentleman, bound for that country; and desired also to be taken notice off by others, that may have occasion to visit the same.'
Subject: Geography / Exploration
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Inquiries for Turky' |