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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Monday, 13 April 2020

NEW ENGLANDS PROSPECT. A Gutenberg File.

The South part of New-England, as it is
Planted this yeare, 1634.


A true, lively, and experimentall
description of that part of America,
commonly called New England:
discovering the state of that Countrie,
both as it stands to our new-come
English Planters; and to the old
Native Inhabitants.
Laying downe that which may both enrich the
knowledge of the mind-travelling Reader,
or benefit the future Voyager.
By William Wood.


18th Century Metal Files.

The file and whetstone I carry in my knapsack.

In the early 18th century all metal files were fashioned by hand by a file cutter. Blank files were made by the blacksmith & then sold to the file cutter.
A 16th century German file cutter (Taylor, 1920, 30)
Filecutting hammer, chisel for a file (right) and a rasp punch (left) (H.C.)

Selection of file cutter’s hammers.






Governor's Palace Virtual Tour.

https://virtualtours.colonialwilliamsburg.org/?from=virtual-tours


How shipwreck hunter's search for a sunken galleon and lost engraved stone could rewrite Australian history by proving the Spanish landed more than a CENTURY before Captain Cook

Copywrite Ben Cropp.
A shipwreck hunter has launched a new expedition to search for a sunken Spanish galleon and engraved stone lost in Queensland that, if found, could rewrite Australia's history.  
Veteran documentary maker Ben Cropp is determined to find evidence that Spanish explorers landed in eastern Australia about 130 years before Captain James Cook's famous voyage up the east coast in 1770.
He is searching for a 17th Century Spanish gold mining settlement he believes existed south of Bamaga in Far North Queensland, according to markings on an ancient map.