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of 4 or 5 sheets a week, notwithstanding the
difficulty of it which I well know must be
extreme. If he could produce no more than
4, still that could be rapid work. Suppose
52 sheets Preface included = 416 pages that
I believe would be about the mark that would
be 13 weeks from just 3 calendar months
from we will say last Monday Novr 20th:
at that rate it would be done here by Feb:
20. He thinks the printing will take 2 months
The plan then will be to send it at twice:
the 1st half 6 weeks hence; so that when the
last half gets to Leipsic there will be but
one month's work to do, By a route which
he mentioned, he says it will get thither
in two days, after the post. Say then that
it gets there at the end of 3 weeks by from the
20 of Feb.y that brings it to the 13th of March:
Add the month; that brings it to the 13th
of April by which time the printing is to
be finished. Now my idea is to make Hamburgh
the entrepot, and from thence to get it
sent to the four or perhaps five capital places
where it is to go: viz; Sto; Pet: Ber: Vi: &
perhaps Flo. If you approve of this, write
to your friend at Hamburgh without loss of time
desiring a speedy answer; and let me know
immediately in the first place when you have
written, in the 2d place when you have received
an answer. I will take care you may be
sure to send a copy of the English; and
at the same time I may send copies of the Eng.
for each of the Germ. I think they should go
together, that any person who understands their
origin may see what justice has been done
by
by the translat:r. I shall probably ex majori cantila
send what you are to have both ways:
2 or 3 copies the way above mentioned, & 2 or
3 more by way of Vienna if this one turns out
upon your inquiry to be a regular conveyance from
thence to you: this I mentioned in my last.
I will from time to time let you know of the
progress that is made. Now things are come
to this point there is some in it.
Consider how many copies you will want, and
send me word.
Experiment
Wedny Nov. 29.
I had a cold & could not write yesterday: so I staid for another
post. "Experimenting" I have looked into; and upon observing
the contents I am vexed you did not take
it with you. I can not think at present how It only
happened you did not. How to manage about sending it
to you I know not: when your first letter about it
reached me it was too late in the year to think of sending it
all the way by sea. I must either send it to Hamburgh to
take its' chance, or get it copied (& this is what
I don't know how to do ) & send it by the post:
Potatoes
Then there is the remainder of "Potatoes" it is
a matter of 5 or 6 half sheets: this is
4to sheets — for it is copied in a different manner
from the former part. It was a good while
before I could get the remainder copied, & then your excursion
made me look upon all those things not thrown to
a boundless distance.
Weights & Measures
I have looked that out also — that might be
got by close copying into 1 sheet. What to do
about all these papers I know not — they are
too much to load Sneyd with: & then for copying
if I have Clark, I pay him 1 shilling an hour.
I shall begin to look out for a letter
from your friend in reply to my answer to his
first. I should like much to hear a little about
him, how he is living and what he it is he is
doing: but that I suppose providence renders impossible.
I wish you would take his profile &
send me: but let it come in some letter which is
not
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