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every day his not having had leisure to sit down to answer your letters, he
has not been able to begin it.
"Experimenting" and other papers you should make a packet of of the
size of a letter no matter how thick and give it to Sneyd to be sent
by a courier under cover to Sir James Harris. With There will be great
difficulty and expence in sending by the way of Vienna. You might learn
from Raikes or Shairpe in London or of Porter with whom you will be
better acquainted of some opportunities by somebody's coming here of sending
a couple of copies of Code. Not that it appears by your account that
the translation will be ready before the time that Ships will come.
I do not forget the different things I promised to send neither is it my fault
that they were not sent by the last ships. This may be the land of promises
but I assure you it is not that of performance. I do hope however to send
you some curiosities which I do not depend on others for the providing of.
The Cox you speak of came here with Ld Herbert and was much
remarked here for perpetually boaring any company he was in with unconnected & frivolous questions. It is from Pallas that he got his account
of the discoveries here. He got the Empress's permission to examine all
the old chronicles at Moscow. The Painter you mention is I believe a
great scoundrel he is however patronised by Sir J as an artist and his works
please the Empress and everybody else. She through Sir J's recommendation
paid his depts and his expenses here and he ahs a salary of about 500£ English.
I take for granted that a man may obtain a patent for a machine
of which he is the inventor though he has previously tried the made use
of it in a foreign country. If it be not so let me know directly.
I have a curious Dutch shipbuilding book given me by which was once Peter
by the Peter the great made the Great's. It was the daughter of the person to whom he gave it that gave it me.
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