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Observations upon several voyages to India out and home: as also remarks on the ports and places touch'd at in that Voyage. with some account of the genius of the natives and inhabitants, their Customs, Laws, and the Trade of the several Countries. Illustrated with sixty one curious copper plates, representing the several Harbours, Headlands, Rocks, Shoals and Sands in the Places herein mentioned, By Captain Henry Cornwall.
Cornwall, Henry, Captain.Date: M,DCC,XXIV. [1724]- Books
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Observations upon several voyages to India out and home; as also remarks on the ports and places touched at in that Voyage; with some account of the genius of the natives and inhabitants, their Customs, Laws, and the Trade of the several Countries. Illustrated with sixty one curious copper plates, representing the several Harbours, Headlands, Rocks, Shoals, and Sands in the Places herein-mentioned. By Captain Henry Cornwall.
Cornwall, Henry, Captain.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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The life and glorious actions of the honourable Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Kt. Admiral of the confederate fleet in the Mediterranean sea, who was unfortunately drowned upon 22d of October, 1707, through his Ship the Association, Splitting on the Rocks near Scilly, as in her Passage from the Streights for England. Furthermore, you have here contained all his noble Expeditions, his famous Sea-Fights, and his brave Exploits performed in Several Parts of the World.
Date: [1709?]- Books
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Survey of the ancient and present state of the Scilly Islands: describing their Situation. Towns. Forts. Produce. Government. Customs. Antiquities. Number. Churches. Harbours. Language. Arts. Manufactures. House Burnings. Extent. Castles. Soil. Religion. Traffick. Grants. Shipwrecks. The Importance of these Islands To the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain and Ireland; their many admirable Curiosities, both Natural and Artificial; the most remarkable Events, Accidents, and Revolutions in past Ages. Also Directions for Ships to go into their different Harbours: likewise how to avoid The many dangerous Rocks, sunken Ledges, and Shoals, about the Islands. Carefully extracted, and compiled, not only from the most esteemed Historians extant, but also from the Observations of the most skilful Pilots, and other intelligent Inhabitants. A Work very necessary for such Seafaring People as come near the dangerous Rocks of Scilly, and entertaining to all Degrees of Readers. By John Troutbeck, Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Leeds.
Troutbeck, John, 1718 or 1719-1792.Date: 1794- Books
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A survey of the ancient and present state of the Scilly Islands: Describing Their Situation. Towns. Forts. Produce. Government. Customs. Antiquities. Number. Churches. Harbours. Language. Arts. Manufactures. House Burnings. Extent. Castles. Soil. Religion. Traffick. Grants. Shipwrecks. The Importance of these Islands To the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain and Ireland; Their Many Admirable Curiosities, both Natural and Artificial; The Most Remarkable Events, Accidents, and Revolutions in past Ages. Also Directions for Ships to go into their different Harbours: Likewise How To Avoid The many dangerous Rocks, sunken Ledges, and Shoals, About The Islands. Carefully extracted, and compiled, not only from the most esteemed Historians extant, but also from the Observations of the most skilful Pilots, and other intelligent Inhabitants. A Work very necessary for such Seafaring People as come near the dangerous Rocks of Scilly, and entertaining to all Degrees of Readers. By John Troutbeck, Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Leeds.
Troutbeck, John, 1718 or 1719-1792.Date: [1796]- Books
An introduction to the study of rocks / by L. Fletcher.
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy.Date: 1896- Books
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The natural history of Hartz-Forest, in His Majesty King George's German dominions. Being a succinct account of The Caverns, Lakes, Springs, Rivers, Mountains, Rocks, Quarries, Fossiles, Castles, Gardens, the famous Pagan Idol Pustrich or Spit-Fire, Dwarf-Holes, Pits, moving Islands, Whirlpools, Mines, several Engines belonging to them; Ores, the manner of refining them; Smelting-Houses; several sorts of Ovens, Hammer-Mills, Vitriol and Glass-Houses, &c. in the said Forest: With several useful and entertaining Physical Observations. Written in German by H. Behrens, M.D.
Behrens, Georg Henning, 1662-1712.Date: 1730- Pictures
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A hart's tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) growing on a pile of mossy rocks. Watercolour.
Reference: 23619i- Books
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Bognor rocks. A poem
Date: 1794- Books
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Directions for navigating the Gulf and River of St. Laurence, with a particular account of the bays, roads, Rocks, Sands, Land-Marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place; the Setting and Flowing of the Tides, &c. Founded on accurate observations and experiments, made by the officers of his Majesty's Fleet. By order of Charles Saunders, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of the British naval forces in th expedition against Quebec, in 1759. Published by command of the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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Directions for navigating the Gulf and river of St. Lawrence. With a particular account of the bays, roads, Rocks, Sands, Land-Marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place; the Setting and Flowing of the Tides, &c. Founded on accurate observations and experiments made by the officers of His Majesty's fleet. By order of Charles Saunders, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of the British naval forces in the expedition against Quebec, in 1759. Published by command of the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004123: Graffiti on rocks in Upper Egypt
Date: 2 January 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/70Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Steep grassy banks at the water's edge with shrubs and rocks at their base. Watercolour.
Reference: 23614i- Ephemera
Cocaine (charlie) and crack (rocks) / HIT.
Date: 1994- Pictures
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Tunbridge Wells, Kent: six sketches of the high rocks. Lithograph by G. Barnard.
Barnard, George, 1807-1890.Reference: 22949i- Digital Images
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Illustration of rocks and waves. Oriental MSS Japanese 48.
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Illustration of rocks and waves. Oriental MSS Japanese 48.
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Illustration of rocks and waves. Oriental MSS Japanese 48.
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applyed to every age and constitution of body : The fourth impression, amplified with many profitable additions. By Tob. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed a very necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe; with a censure of the medicinal faculties of the water of St. Vincent's Rocks near the city of Bristol. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco, by the same author.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: Anno 1660- Books
Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, a treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applied to every age and constitution of body. Much more enlarged than the former impressions / by Tho. Venner ... Whereunto is annexed by the same author, a very necessary, and compendius treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.Date: 1650- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006038: Pre Cambian rocks of the Grand Canyon
Date: 14 January 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/50/39Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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A small lizard from the Neocomian rocks of Comén, near Trieste.
Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier), 1839-1909.Date: 1881- Books
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Petralogy. A treatise on rocks / By J. Pinkerton.
Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.Date: 1811- Books
Elf Rock : a tale of coincidence / by Elf Rock.
Elf Rock, 1946-Date: [1996]- Books
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applied to every age and constitution of body. Much more enlarged than the former impressions / By Tho. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same authour, a very necessary, and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All which are likewise amplified since the former impressions.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1650