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Letter from Roger Gale, Scruton, to an Unidentified Recipient,1743/4 January 27
Discussing coins found near Cottenham; saying "The Coins you mention to be found near Cottenham are not worth enquiring after, their finds producing nothing but vulgar ordinary stuff, made much worse by their bad preservation, occasioned and increased by their lying so many years in the moist soil of the Fen which must rust and corrode them. if there were any of them sold for 12d a piece, they must have been of a better sort, or have met with an ignorant purchaser. Dr. Stukeley and myself traced a great deal of the old walls from the Castle at Cambridge quite to Pythagoras's School, and of the way and other works of the Romans from Water Beach over Cottenham Fen towards Audrey bridge, seven ...
The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D., and the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D., and the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.
His Family
He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York-he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New Hampshire mountains. A place of turbulent thoroughfares, of shouting drivers, hurrying crowds, the crack of whips and the clatter of wheels; an uproarious, thrilling town of enterprise, adventure, youth; a city of pulsing energies, the center of a boundless land; a port of commerce with all the world, of stately ships with snowy sails; a fascinating pleasure town, with throngs of eager travellers hurrying fro...
