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William Borlase

English antiquarian, geologist and naturalist

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    Observations on the antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles: exemplify'd and prov'd by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. With a vocabulary of Cornu British language / By William Borlase.

    Borlase, William, 1695-1772. | Date: 1754
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    The natural history of Cornwall. The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ... Of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts ... / By William Borlase.

    Borlase, William, 1695-1772. | Date: 1758

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