Journal de voyage en Angleterre (pays de Galles)

Name of traveller

*Auguste Silhol (b. 1843)

Reason for travel

• industrial study

Date of travel

1866

Content

• art: contains technical drawing of geological strata, machinery and steam engines
• industry: description of coal mining industry, various collieries and metallurgical industry in south Wales
• terrain: description of geological properties of south Wales
• transport: description of Cardiff Docks
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

diary; scientific study

Citation

*Silhol, Auguste. Journal de voyage en Angleterre (pays de Galles). 1866. MS JV 1866 (337), Journaux et mémoires de voyage de MM. les Élèves. Bibliothèque patrimoniale numérique de l’École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech), Paris. MS.