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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News June 15, 1739
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Rev. Mr. Whitefield preached to vast multitudes at the Bowling-Green, Hanham Mount, Rose Green, and elsewhere, and began a subscription for a school-house to teach colliers' children.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 95.56% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss). Across pages, this is the worst fragment.
- Length vs source
- 99.63% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
On Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Whitefield preach'd at the Bowling-Green, Hanham Mount, and Rose Green, to vast Multitudes. (At Rose-Green there were upwards of 20,000; at the Bowling-Green, on Monday, not less than 7 or 8000.) On Tuesday at the Brick-Yard near the Glass-Houses. On Wednesday the Church was offered at Publow, but not being near big enough for the People, they withdrew to a Common hard by; there were forty Horse, and many got up in the Trees. On Thursday he dined with the Colliers at Two Mile Mill, and began a Subscription
Subscription for a School-House to teach their Children; which met with uncommon Encouragement.
Subscription for a School-House to teach their Children; which met with uncommon Encouragement.
What sub-type of article is it?
Religious Affairs
Human Interest
What keywords are associated?
Whitefield Preaching
Open Air Sermons
School House Subscription
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. Mr. Whitefield
Where did it happen?
Hanham Mount / Rose Green
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Hanham Mount / Rose Green
Event Date
On Sunday Last
Key Persons
Rev. Mr. Whitefield