Michell to the Hon. Henry Cavendish 



[I4TH AUGUST, IjSS] 



Dear Sir 



Some observations, as I returned 

 from London, having occur'd to me 

 with regard to the Northamptonshire, 

 Lincolnshire, &c. yellow limestone (viz 

 Dr Blagden's, not my yellow limestone) 

 I take the liberty of communicating them 

 to you, though perhaps hardly worth 

 your attention. I could, indeed, have 

 wished, I had been able to give them 

 you with more precision. I lodged one 

 night, in my road, at the Royal Oak, 

 a new house built on Greetham Common, 



1784, appears to have acted as assistant or secretarial 

 friend to Cavendish, who settled an annuity upon 

 him and left him a handsome legacy. The MS. 

 of the Journeys contains the joint observations made 

 by the two coadjutors. It will be seen from Michell's 

 letter that he was able to set them right on at least 

 one important point, and that Cavendish acknow- 

 ledged the correction in his reply. As already men- 

 tioned, Michell's letter has been alluded to in 

 Wilson's Life of Cavendish^ pp. 129, 177. 



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