The Royal Society Archives

[fancycwabs]

Because I'm a sad, sad person, I read all the s's that are typed as f's in old documents with a mental lisp.

For that reason, this document from the Royal Society Archives amused me greatly.

Thanks to snowy_owlet for the heads-up.

Comments

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

And here was me thinking it was going to be a recipe for roast sucking-pig.

[sergeirichard.livejournal.com]

Linkin' not work, :C

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Ah--it appears that direct linking isn't something that the fellows of the Royal Society like. Here are a few choice excerpts:

The fea-cow is a native of the Magdalen Iflands, St. Johns, and Anticofti in the Gulph of St. Lawrence. They refort very early in the fpring to the former of thefe places, which feems to be by nature particularly adapted to the wants of thefe animals, abounding with ^(a)clams of a very large size, and the most convenient landing places, called Eschouries.

^(a) A fhell-fifh refembling a fcallop

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I like fcallopf in a nife faffron faufe.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of a cartoon of Samuel Johnson and his mistress, looking disgusted at the man following him. His speech balloon reads "Fod off, Bofwell!"