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Paper, details of an extraordinary high tide observed at Shadwell [London] by Captain Thomas Jones

Reference number: CLP/6/65

Date: 8 March 1726

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Jones describes a high tide which was said to have reached 25 foot and five inches and a half.

Subject: Oceanography

Read to the Royal Society on 10 March 1728

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from Mr. Thomas Jones to James Jurin, M.D. F. R. S. and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London, concerning the high tide in the River Thames, on Feb. 16, 1736'

Reference number
CLP/6/65
Earliest possible date
8 March 1726
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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Paper, details of an extraordinary high tide observed at Shadwell [London] by Captain Thomas Jones, 8 March 1726, CLP/6/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_65/paper-details-of-an-extraordinary-high-tide-observed-at-shadwell-london-by-captain-thomas-jones, accessed on 10 April 2026

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