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Part of a letter from the Reverend Benjamin Colman of Boston New England to the late Bishop of Peterborough giving an account of the late earthquake which happened there communicated by Dr Jurin

Reference number: RBO/14/97

Date: 1729

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Read to the Royal Society on 17 April 1729

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RBO/14/97
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1729
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4 pages
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Part of a letter from the Reverend Benjamin Colman of Boston New England to the late Bishop of Peterborough giving an account of the late earthquake which happened there communicated by Dr Jurin, 1729, RBO/14/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_97/part-of-a-letter-from-the-reverend-benjamin-colman-of-boston-new-england-to-the-late-bishop-of-peterborough-giving-an-account-of-the-late-earthquake-which-happened-there-communicated-by-dr-jurin, accessed on 16 May 2025

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