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Smeaton was engaged to convert the old corn mill at Stratford into a waterwheel-powered engine for raising water

'Hidalgo' simply means Spanish gentleman

Full length seated portrait of Fontenelle dressed in loose robes and turban holding a quill pen in his right hand

in reference to his role as Advocate General and then Chief Justice of the Admiralty Court in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Inscribed: 'W

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury mb-height 4825 Smeaton was engaged to convert'Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury'. Cooper (1621 1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.