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But this is not all. This charge for difference
of carriage of raw materials & finished work being a
standing one, the indemnification for it comes in the
shape of interest: but there is another charge which
comes in immediately and for which the indemnification
would call for a large sum at once in the
shape of capital. I mean the charge of conveying
the materials of the building with all its appendages
for the distance which forms the difference between
the near spot & the proposed remote one.
Four hundred tons of iron now casting form but
a small part of the load. Timber to an amount
in point of weight which unless ordered I will not
attempt to calculate, form another. Bricks & mortar
for aught I know yet another. For the surrounding
wall alone (to say nothing of foundation
wall & Outhouses) 2000 fat of walling 12 foot high.
Et caeteras — but I will not trouble you, Sir, with
<hi rend="underline">et caeteras.
Now then, Sir, in addition to what I was observing
to Mr Long with regard to the improbability
of Administration's acceding to any proposal
for an adequate indemnification to me for the loss
of the spot that had been engaged to me, and improbability
grounded on the impropriety of any
such arrangement on the part of Administration,
I will beg leave to consider it with regard to
the
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