Catalogue Entry: MINT00784

'Extract of a Memorial from Sr John Areskine [Erskine, the proprietor of the land on which the mine was discovered] to the Lord Vict Townshend'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/256-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contents

An account of activities in the mine at Alva December 1715 to February 1716, principally the discovery of several apparently promising veins of ore, though no two accounts agreed as to what sort of ore. Work proved prohibitively expensive, however, and was suspended in February 1716.

[1] December.

[2] 1715

[3] April

[4] May & Iune

[5] Latter End of Iuly & August

[6] Sepr.

[7] 1716 February.

[8] October 9th. 1716.

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