Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17492

    Echo of Rosneath bay

    Date
    1690-91
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p43
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 363mm
    width (page): 235mm
    Subject
    Description
    Echo at Rosneath House recorded on 3 December 1662, included in John Aubrey's 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wiltshire, to which are annexed observables of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire'.

    Other instances of this notation can be found at RBO/2ii/049, RBO/2i/053, RBC/1/266, Cl.P/2/34/003-04 and MS/776/253.
    Object history
    By John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original manuscript (1685). It was transcribed by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, at the behest of the Society in 1690-91.
    At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
    Related fellows
    John Aubrey (1626 - 1697, British) , Antiquary
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