In 1316 an account of Kenfig town and castle furnishes the earliest evidence found for rabbit-farming in the country. This records the receipt of 2s. 6d. for 'a certain pasture which is called conynger,' its value having been reduced since its greater part had been submerged by the sea, damage undoubtedly caused by destruction or neglect of the sea defences during the uprising of Llywelyn Bren (1314-16). This rabbit warren, founded no doubt in the coastal dunes that were later to engulf the borough, was perhaps the same as that which figures in a grant of 1344 as the cuniculary of 'Berwes' (or Burrows).

At Huang-shih harbor, teachers and students observed that the whole process of screening and transporting coal to the ships by leather belting was complex, needing over 40 men.

the whole Doctrine of Christianity teaches nothing, but what is perfectly suteable to, and coincident with, the Ruling Principles that a vertuous, and well Inclined man is Acted by;

The first concerns the peculiar attribute of spirit, its spissitude or spiritual density that fourth dimension which augments or diminishes as the spirit contracts or expands.