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Original essay printed at Edinburgh in 1729. [Royal Society Library holds a copy of this work.]

Subject: Agriculture

Reference number
CLP/22ii/40
Earliest possible date
1729
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, Account of 'Essay on ways and means for enclosing, fallowing, planting etc Scotland by an anonymous lover of his country' by Cromwell Mortimer, 1729, CLP/22ii/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_22ii_40/paper-account-of-essay-on-ways-and-means-for-enclosing-fallowing-planting-etc-scotland-by-an-anonymous-lover-of-his-country-by-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 25 May 2025

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