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Content summary: 21 May 1808 : Abraham Crocker to William Cunnington - he thought that Joseph Hisket had sent him some fossil specimens from the clay of his late father's brickyards with a note on 'the plastic power of Nature. Has suspended his researches into the coal strata and hopes for specimens from the mines at Tisbury. He gives the heights of Dean Hill, Beacon Hill, Old Sarum and Bradley Knoll (Yarnfield) as measured by Col. Mudge. 'Some cyder was brought from Marston magna to Frome lately, 3 gns a hogshead I have tasted it : but it will not do'.

Summary: 21 May 1808 : Abraham Crocker to William Cunnington - he thought that Joseph Hisket had sent him some fossil specimens from the clay of his late father's brickyards with a note on 'the plastic power of Nature. Has suspended his researches into the coal strata and hopes for specimens from the mines at Tisbury. He gives the heights of Dean Hill, Beacon Hill, Old Sarum and Bradley Knoll (Yarnfield) as measured by Col. Mudge. 'Some cyder was brought from Marston magna to Frome lately, 3 gns a hogshead I have tasted it : but it will not do'.