Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16992

    Preparation of a pond

    Date
    August 1691
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p29v
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 328mm
    width (page): 211mm
    Description
    This sketch appears on the back of the rough minutes from 13 and 27 August 1691. It perhaps relates to the preparation of a pond to prevent the water from absorbing into the earth.
    Transcription
    The president related that he having lately made a pond in his grounds, and the water soaking much away; he was advised to lay a foot of common Earth over his clay....
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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