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  <dc:title>Paper, 'A relation of a sulphureous vapour which issueth out of the earth nere Wiggon in Lancashire' by Charles Howard</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Paper regarding a sulphureous vapour observed by Howard emerging from bubbling water in the ground near Wigan, Lancashire. Howard held a candle near the vapour, causing the vapour to alight, and subsequently learned that a coal pit sat beneath the area from which the vapour rose. Mr Hotham, Minister of Wiggon [Wigan], took some water away from the spot and attempted to set it on fire without success.

Subject: Geology

Read to the Royal Society on 25 February 1662.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1662</dc:date>
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