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The natural history of Cornwall The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the manner of mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: of the inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of Cornwall by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford printed for the author; by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1758 BORLASE.
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The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring; and shewing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to shut it, and to prove the shutting, by the chain onely; as quickly, exactly, and with less help then with any instrument whatsoever: as also to take distances of a mile-space by the chain without measuring of them, and the situation of any building. Teaching likewise the making and use of a new and general instrument, called a pandoron; which, as exactly and with less charge, supplies the use of the plain-table, theodelete, quadrant, quadrat, circumferentor, and any other observing instrument. To this is added a discovery of divers secrets touching conveying and cleansing of water, flowing and drayning of grounds, quenching houses on fire, &c. With an appendix unfolding errours in board and timber-measure with directions for making a carpenters-ruler. By George Atvvell, aliàs Wells, now teacher of the mathematicks in Cambridge by Language: English
Publication details: [Cambridge] Printed for the author, at the charges of Nathanael Rowls, Doctor of physick MDCLVIII. [1658]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1658 ATWELL. Virtual (1).
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