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  <dc:title>Letter, from Bernard Forest de Belidor to Dr [Cromwell] Mortimer, dated at La Fere</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter informing the Royal Society about his progress on his treatise about 'hydraulic architecture'; Belidor describes the machine that can raise water from a spring or running water, invented by two clergymen from Picardy, and then states that he can send plans, profiles etc if the Royal Society wishes</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 October 1733</dc:date>
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