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Details of an experiment to show the increasing and decreasing of the water of such pools and brooks are at the highest in dry seasons and lowest in the rainy seasons
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Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1723

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RBO/11/101
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1723
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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'An attempt to account for the rising and falling of the water of some Ponds near the Sea' by J Desaguliers, 1723, RBO/11/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_101/an-attempt-to-account-for-the-rising-and-falling-of-the-water-of-some-ponds-near-the-sea-by-j-desaguliers, accessed on 07 November 2025

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