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3. Diseases.—Of children; adults? What kinds prevail most? popular<br />

methods of cure? deaths, wakes, burials? &c., and attendant<br />

circumstances?<br />

XVII.—Laws, Courts of Justice, &c.<br />

1. ANY thing peculiar in their civil customs, laws, courts of justice, and<br />

punishments?<br />

2. Lawyers, physicians, quack doctors? Are there many such in the<br />

islands?<br />

XVIII.—Phenomena.<br />

1. THE aurora borealis, or "northern lights."—When do they appear? in<br />

winter only? what time of the evening do they commence? Describe<br />

their appearance, and how long they last. Do they compensate for the<br />

shortness of the days?<br />

2. What is the common opinion of their origin?<br />

3. Tides.—Any thing remarkable in them? when greatest?<br />

4. Seasons.—Winter, summer, autumn, spring? When do they begin, and<br />

how long continue?<br />

5. Weather.—What are the signs of approaching good or bad? snow, rain,<br />

frost, winds, any remarkable sign in the heavens? and from what do<br />

the country people draw their prognostications?<br />

6. Does the magnetic needle suffer agitations, singular variations in its<br />

traversing, or in its dip, during the prevalence of the aurora borealis?<br />

Or does the atmosphere then show any peculiar signs of electricity?

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