Commonplace book, [179-?].

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Commonplace book, [179-?].

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Manuscript, in several hands, of a collection of about a thousand entries along with several newspaper clippings. The mss. entries cover a very wide range of topics, the majority pertain to scientific and agricultural discoveries, farming techniques and produce, and prices of various commodities, but the volume also includes medicinal recipes for humans and farm animals. The author records medicinal cures for hooping coughs and hiccups; scientific discoveries concerning electricity and air; the price of wood, steel, coal, and carrots; a new method of generating yeast; a list of chemicals present in soils; and a wide variety of farming information, including notes about butter, cows, pigs, wheat, rain, potatoes, how to kill weevils in barns, and how to cure the scab in sheep. The volume is also rich in observations on a wide range of social issues: discussions of national characters, literatures (British as well as classical and European) with literary quotations such as verses from Juvenal, Hamlet, and Peter Pindar ; excerpts from Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, a letter to Conway and thoughts on gardening. Long entries from James Cook's Voyages, Francis Bacon's Interiroa rerum, and discussion of the work of Benito Jernonimo Feijoo. The authors make frequent mention of other cultures and the native peoples of India, the South Seas, and North America.

1 v. (322 leaves) ; 34 cm.

Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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