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Paper, 'On the Brimstone Hill (La Soufriere) in Guadeloupe' by J A Peysonnel

Reference number: L&P/3/142

Date: 1756

Description

17 pages in French, with 12 pages of English translation.

Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations made upon the Brimstone-Hill (in French La Souffriere) in the Island of Guadelupa'

Read 25 March 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/142
Earliest possible date
1756
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Ink on paper
Page extent
29 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'On the Brimstone Hill (La Soufriere) in Guadeloupe' by J A Peysonnel, 1756, L&P/3/142, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_142/paper-on-the-brimstone-hill-la-soufriere-in-guadeloupe-by-j-a-peysonnel, accessed on 19 January 2026

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