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Letter, 'Of the Giant's Causeway' from Richard Pocoke to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/2/369

Date: 18 June 1753

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Subject: 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 28 June 1753

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L&P/2/369
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18 June 1753
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Pococke

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Richard Pococke, Letter, 'Of the Giant's Causeway' from Richard Pocoke to Thomas Birch, 18 June 1753, L&P/2/369, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_369/letter-of-the-giants-causeway-from-richard-pocoke-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 10 July 2025

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