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Letter, 'Of the sinking of the river at Pontypool' from Edward Matthews

Reference number: L&P/3/135

Date: 22 February 1756

Description

Contains two illustrations.

Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the sinking of a river near Pontypool in Monmouthshire; in a letter from Mr. Edward Matthews, to the commissioners of the excise'

Read 11 March 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/135
Earliest possible date
22 February 1756
Physical description
Ink on paper with plate
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the sinking of the river at Pontypool' from Edward Matthews, 22 February 1756, L&P/3/135, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_135/letter-of-the-sinking-of-the-river-at-pontypool-from-edward-matthews, accessed on 13 February 2025

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