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  <dc:title>Letter, from Thomas Molyneux to Martin Lister, dated at Dublin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Account of the Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, compiled from observations of various people - that Molyneux hoped to visit the Giant's Causeway himself - wishes to correct errors in a publication of a paper by Samuel Foley in 'Philosophical Transactions' (vol 18, no 212, p 170); that Mr Sandys, a 'Master in Designing and Drawing of Prospects' to make a drawing of the causeway and surrounding area - list of figures and explanations are given; concerning other areas where there are similar columns of stone in Northern Ireland eg called the Looms and near Dunluce; details about the stone of the Causeway
Figures of columns are attached

Read to the Royal Society on 29 June 1698</dc:description>
  <dc:date>25 March 1698</dc:date>
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