| 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. |