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Details of sinking land at Lymne in Kent in a letter from P Collinson

Reference number: RBO/13/89

Date: 1728

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Original letter dated 13 September 1727
Also about a subterranean fire in the Vale of Good Cheap which is marshy in some places - now called the 'burning brook'
Figure showing the land in profile and where a section of it has sunk

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RBO/13/89
Earliest possible date
1728
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Details of sinking land at Lymne in Kent in a letter from P Collinson, 1728, RBO/13/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_89/details-of-sinking-land-at-lymne-in-kent-in-a-letter-from-p-collinson, accessed on 24 June 2025

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