The fifth, to their treatment in the Colonies.

The sixth, to the seamen employed in the trade.

These tables contained together one hundred and forty-five questions.

My idea was that they should be printed on a small sheet of paper, which should be folded up in seven or eight leaves, of the length and breadth of a small almanac, and then be sent in franks to our different correspondents.

These, when they had them, might examine persons capable of giving evidence, who might live in their neighbourhoods or fall in their way, and return us their examinations by letter.
The committee having approved and printed the tables of questions, I began my tour.