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RefNoEL/M1/36a
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Mr Muray to Robert Moray, dated at Mockjack Bay in Virginia
CreatorMuray (fl 1665-1668)
Date1665
DescriptionWishes to know the best recipe for making 'common white salt' and how bay salt at Rochel in France is made; discussing the planting of 10,000 mulbery trees in Virginia and about silk manufacture; that barley and rice-seed had been sown; about commodities in Virginia; that Muray hoped to send some sweet-scented tobacco
Read to the Royal Society on 28 March 1666
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Place originMobjack Bay, Virginia, United States of America
Origin coordinates37.28347, -76.29966
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialJBO/2/244
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/b6ed154d-9187-441c-b419-20debe36b7b2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8261Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician1608 - 1673
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