Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation, Vol. 3 of 3: Or, Observations on Life Amidst the Various Forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature: With Practical Comments and Illustrations
Cannon, it is said, were first used by the English, 1346 but we have good evidence they were used in Scotland, 1340. The oldest known English watch was made, it is said, in the sixteenth century. There exists a watch, which antiquarians allow, belonged to King Robert Bruce.
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