The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortuanely, only one page at a time. OCR by The Paperless Office
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortuanely, only one page at a time. OCR by The Paperless Office
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's covering much of the advancement of scientific knowledge of the early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. I will have this entire volume uploaded, but unfortuanely, only one page at a time. OCR by The Paperless Office
the level of the ground, and about one foot within
the peat; and ova it was railed m artificial hill, abaft eight feet higher than the neighbouring gromd ; and as the whok hill akfifird of both peat and meadow. ground intermixed togabir, it phionly appeared, the the pelt was older than the ern ; and that the puke., who railed die hill, mai fiat have dug a large Ink in the peat; to bury the an there, and to formed the hill of the peat and meadow-ground mixed top ther. R.cond the hill, where the um lay, they had made alio many half-circular ridges, with trenches be tween than, one beyond another, in this manoer:
Where a is the river, and the ; and the hilf
circles Blew fame of the ridges, the number 1 which Mr. Ofgood has now fagot. The urn am broke by the peat-fpade, and it ckne up only. it fmall pieces, fo that nothing was found in it r swl no body happened to bc there at that time ben tit peat-cutters. No coins of my fort have barn found he the pat But there may, perhaps, be a variety of thing. e the bottcm of it : bra as the peat U always full el water, whkh is never quite drained off, fo it is ra so eary Maio to examine the bottom. 7 I kg
Recollections
With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of
Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and
another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in
facsimile