| Description Of Item | Notes on the River Mole, which ‘sinketh’ in ‘a place called the swallow’ and ‘riseth again’ near Leatherhead, ‘which the Country People say was experimented in a goose, which was put in and came out alive again tho[ugh] without Feathers’.
Short note on the Barons’ Cave in Reigate: ‘Vault nigh Rygate in Surry, of very fine sand, capable of receiving 500 men’.
Copied from R. B., Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland (1682).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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