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Original letter dated 3 November 1731
Sudden wind at Cerne Abbas in Dorset - some say it was a water spout - details of the damage caused
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1732

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RBO/18/3
Earliest possible date
1732
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Account of a suddain violent Blast of Wind', in a letter from J Derby, dated at Minternmagna, to Henry Sheppard, 1732, RBO/18/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_18_3/account-of-a-suddain-violent-blast-of-wind-in-a-letter-from-j-derby-dated-at-minternmagna-to-henry-sheppard, accessed on 15 October 2024

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