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X. Description of certain Pits in Derbyshire, by Hayman Rooke, Esq. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington
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Seeing your very curious account of those remarkable pits in Berkshire, which you favored the Society with, I could not help thinking, that the like kind of excavations might be found in the Peak of Derbyshire, where there are a number of caves, and other remains of the ancient Britons.
Title: X. Description of certain Pits in Derbyshire, by Hayman Rooke, Esq. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington
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Seeing your very curious account of those remarkable pits in Berkshire, which you favored the Society with, I could not help thinking, that the like kind of excavations might be found in the Peak of Derbyshire, where there are a number of caves, and other remains of the ancient Britons.
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