Accounts of Travel

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Linden, Diederic[h] Wessel. A Letter to William Hooson, a Derbyshire Miner: Shewing the Mistakes, and Errors, Commited in His Lately Publish'd Miners (sic) Dictionary. With a Preface Setting forth the Reasons for Making the Said Publick. Chester: J. Page, 1747. Print.

  • Type of account: Letter
  • Nationality: German
  • Language: English
  • Date of travel: undated, ca. mid-1740s

Linden, Diederic[h] Wessel. A Treatise on the Three Medical Mineral Waters at Llandrindod, in Radnorshire, South Wales with some Remarks in Mineral and Fossil Mixtures, in Their Native Veins and Beds; At Least as Far as Respects Their Influence on Water. London: W. Owen, 1756. Print.

  • Type of account: Medical study
  • Nationality: German
  • Language: English
  • Date of travel: August 1754

Linden, Diederic[h] Wessel. An Experimental and Practical Enquiry into the Opthalmic, Antiscrophulous, and Nervous Properties of the Mineral Water of Llangybi, in Carnarvonshire. To which Is Annexed, an Essay on the Prize Question, Proposed by the Royal Academy of Bourdeaux, For the Year 1767, on the Subject of Analizing Mineral Waters. London: C. Moran, 1767. Print.

  • Type of account: Report; medical study
  • Nationality: German
  • Language: English; translation: Welsh
  • Date of travel: 1766

Linden, Diederic[h] Wessel. Three Letters on Mining and Smelting; in which a Method is Laid Down, whereby These Useful Sciences May Be Greatly Improved. To which Is Added, a Fourth Letter; Setting Forth, a Discovery of an Easy Method to Secure Ships Bottoms from Worms. London: George Keith, 1750. Print.

  • Type of account: Letter; report; scientific study
  • Nationality: German
  • Language: English; translation: French
  • Date of travel: undated, ca. late 1740s

Linden, Diederic[h] Wessel. “Of the Chalybeat Waters at Islington, called the New Tunbridge-Wells. Of the Waters in Saint Winifred’s Well at Holywell in Flintshire, North-Wales: Also of some Chalybeat Springs in that Neighbourhood. And of the Mineral Water, called the Neville Holt Spaw in Leicestershire.” A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Virtues of Chalybeat Waters, and Natural Hot Baths. With a Description of several Mineral Waters in England and in Germany. Likewise, Directions for the Preparation and Use of Artificial, Hot, Mineral-Water-Baths. To which is added, and Appendix on the Selter Water with Many Remarks, especially on it’s Mixture with Tar-Water. And also a Dissertaion on Baron Schwanberg’s Liquid Shell; With the Process, for Preparing the Same. To which Is Annexed, Occational Remarks and Queries on the Glastonbury Waters. 2nd ed. London: T. Osborne, 1752. 107-34. Print.

  • Type of account: Scientific study
  • Nationality: German
  • Language: English
  • Date of travel: undated, ca. late 1740s to early 1750s
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