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such as any Person whatever may be sure of
acquiring with a very little degree of practice, on
the part of the Remainder.
That, for the Invention of the species of
Building aforesaid, your Memorialist is indebted
in a great measure, and for the system of Machinery
aforesaid altogether, to his Brother Samuel Bentham,
Knight of the Order of Saint George of Russia
and Brigadier General in her Imperial Majesty's
service, but at present residing with your Memorialist
at his House in Westminster.
9.
Advantageous
undertaking
foregone on
this account
That it had been the intention of your
Memorialist or otherwise, to carry into effect the
said Inventions by the power of Steam, by means
of which, according to the most approved calculations,
force may be obtained at as cheap a rate, as if, the
same quantity of force being obtained from Men,
such Men were to be paid no more than from 2/4 to 3.d or thereabouts
a day.
That, on the faith of the Treaty above
mentioned, and at the earnest sollicitation of your
Memorialist, your Memorioalist's said Brother was
prevailed upon to quit the design of carrying on
the said Works by Steam Engines, and to confine
his plan of operation, to such sorts of Machines,
as would be capable of being worked by human labour
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