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Unpublished paper, 'An account of a line of levels carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean, to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thomson

Reference number: AP/21/20

Date: April 1838

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Thomson shares observations on course of the river Euphrates and the structure and elevation of the surrounding landscape. He describes the operation, beginning in August 1835, of carrying the line of levels across North Syria with Lieutenant Murphy.With geological and botanical notes by William Ainsworth. Includes a map of the route traversed. Annotated in pencil throughout.

Subject: Geography

Received 25 April 1838. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a line of levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean sea to the river Euphrates'.

Reference number
AP/21/20
Earliest possible date
April 1838
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
22 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'An account of a line of levels carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean, to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thomson, April 1838, AP/21/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_21_20/unpublished-paper-an-account-of-a-line-of-levels-carried-across-northern-syria-from-the-mediterranean-to-the-river-euphrates-by-william-taylor-thomson, accessed on 12 February 2025

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