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as I passed thro', and Mr Marsh told me afterwards
that he then told Lord Sandwich who I was and that
I had made an Improvement upon the Chain-Pump
his Lordship said he supposed I was to be a Capital Builder in the River [+] [+] Mr Marsh told him he believed I was for that there was little or nothing got by being a Builder in his Majesty's Yard.
The same day his Lordship, and the Navy Board
came to see the Curiosities belonging to Mr Gray
(the Master Builder of Chatham Dockyard who had
lately removed hither from Woolwich Yard, & with whom
S.B. was then Apprentice) such as the Model of
a Launch &c &c Mr Gray had desir'd me to put them
in order, and introduced me to his Lordship, and
I shew'd him the Lyons" soon after, I had Mr
Marsh entirely to myself, and, when he mentioned
my Pump, I told him I wish'd to have the Navy
Boards reasons for thinking Cole's Pump superior
to mine; for that some Gentlemen, who I thought
understood those matters very well, preferred mine
to Cole's; he said, so did he, I told him the
Surveyor also said he preferred mine, and
yet the Navy Board, in their Letter to me, told
me they thought Cole's superiour to mine; He
said, they did not think so, but, as they had
contracted with Cole, and had employed him,
they did not like to turn him off:

I have thought much about my Boat lately, and
have added some Improvememts to it, that is, to it
built in the air, thru' which it sails with amazing
swiftness, but I have not begun that which is to sail
in the water, my apparatus to try my Experiment

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Date_1	1773-04-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field
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