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Ref NoMS 3219/4/3/1/56
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/127/56
TitleLetter. James Watt (Heathfield) to Joseph Black (Edinburgh).
LevelItem
Date06 November 1799
DescriptionOn return from a jaunt to the West. [He has made a two month tour of the south western counties where the weather was wet and the harvest bad. The apple crop was superabundant. The trial of dephlogisticated nitrous air by Dr. Beddoes and Mr Davy and its power on the nervous system. Health. Mr Boulton is now making halfpence for the government]. (Partners no. 206)
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