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Paper, answer to some queries proposed by William Molyneux concerning Lough Neagh by Edward Smith, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin

Reference number: CLP/19/92

Date: 1685

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'1. Whether Lough-Neagh hath really the quality of petrifying Wood? To this I answer, that no experiment, or observation yet made, (that I can hear of) can prove the Lough has this petrifying quality; or that the water do' s any way help or promote the petrification; for that two experiments made by a Gentleman of worth and good credit (whose Estate lies contiguous to the Lough, and whose curiositie prompted him to a more diligent search who into this this matter) plainly prove the contrary.'

Subject: Geography

Published in 'Philosophical Transactions', as 'An answer to some quæries proposed by Mr. William Molyneux, concerning Lough-Neagh: by Mr. Edward Smyth, Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Dublin'

Read to the Royal Society on 29 July 1685

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CLP/19/92
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Edward Smith, Paper, answer to some queries proposed by William Molyneux concerning Lough Neagh by Edward Smith, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, 1685, CLP/19/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_19_92/paper-answer-to-some-queries-proposed-by-william-molyneux-concerning-lough-neagh-by-edward-smith-fellow-of-trinity-college-dublin, accessed on 21 April 2026

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