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Paper, 'Further account of the Giant's 'Causey'' by Richard Pococke

Reference number: L&P/2/352

Date: 1753

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Subject: Geography/Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A farther account of the Giant's Causeway in the county of Antrim in Ireland, by the Rev. Richard Pocock, LL. D. Archdeacon of Dublin, and F. R. S'

Read 24 May 1753

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L&P/2/352
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1753
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Ink on paper
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36 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Pococke

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Richard Pococke, Paper, 'Further account of the Giant's 'Causey'' by Richard Pococke, 1753, L&P/2/352, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_352/paper-further-account-of-the-giants-causey-by-richard-pococke, accessed on 11 July 2025

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