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Who would have thought, my dear Sam;
that I should have had to date my letter
from such a scene of desolation! Will you
believe your own eyes when I tell you that London is in
the condition of a beseiged town. If I open
my window I see two fires before me
at a view: one is the King's Bench
Prison, the other is somewhere to the Eastward.
How many more there may be
God knows | When I wrote the above I thought
to have given you a narrative — But there was no finding
time for it.
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2 Oars = Sweeps
It seems that Oars are used on board of our
small ships of war. In the Whitehall Evening
of 23d Oct.1779 mention is made of their being used
on board the Atalanta of 16 guns. They are called
Sweeps. This I find upon looking over my Index — I
forgot to mention it at the time.
An apparatus of proposed as a kind of pre-arms.
Each Soldier to carry one Button to
melt lead at 120 feet distance and 400. See
Brydon's Travels in July & March . I. 284.
4. Mortars
p> Mortars at Malta made by hollowing out
the Rock. The charge a barrel of gunpowder
at a time ib. 330. You have no rocks I
believe that would do any where in the Russ.
dominions. Anderson says he has heard of such a
thing being at Gibraltar.</p>
5. Schule. Heat & Light — Inflam. Air.
The translation of Schule is not out yet,
but will be soon. His positions according to
Bergman are, to that the matter of heat is
nothing but resperable in united combined (intwine)
with a determinate portion of phlogiston: 2.
that inflammable air is resp. air combined
with a greater proportion of phlog: and 3.
that light
again consists of the same elements
only the proportion of phlogiston greater still.
And that the hepatic air (of which Bergman ) consists
of sulphur dissolved in the matter of
by the intermediation of phlogiston. These positions
Bergman says agree admirably with the phenomena hitherto
known under Volume 2.201
June 20
Kit I agree with you and Plesch. perfectly in some of your
remarks, and do not disagree with you in any.
It shall be new-doctored according to the best
of my poor abilities in conformity to your
good pleasure. Perhaps you may have it by
next time I write. The letters to the other people whom
you mention you shall likewise have time
enough for me to have the benefit of your
observations. You will find them fierce enough
for you I imagine. After all, it is not a
cursed thing that I must not say to that sermon
what is true, because other people in
whose mouths perhaps it might not be true
might perhaps be for saying the same thing.
Here's another plague has happen'd about
your things. Mair was applied to about them
by Wilson to give him notice when the
fleet would sail. Mair chose not to say a
syllable about the matter till Sunday on which
day he called on W. and told him that the
fleet was allready gone down to the Hove that
it was uncertain whether a parcel could be sent
after them, but that however he would try, if it
was sent to his counting house in Cloak Lane
Dowgate-hill. On that day there was no such
thing as sending it. For you are to know that
Q.S.P. an age ago had been making a roul
about the , and nothing would serve
him but he must have them unpacked for
him to pore over and sit in judgement on.
Being completely tumbled I did not choose to
trust to any repackage I could give them, but
determined to send them to Mr Ramsden for
that purpose purpose. I thought the later this was done
the better, in order that the whatever other things there might be might go
with
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