JB/539/186/001

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Nigno-Taghil, alias Nigna-Taghilisky Savod, alias the Lower Fabrick situated
on the Taghil.
12 of May O.S. 1781.

I have this instant received yours of the dated in the former part Feb y 13. and in the latter
Jan intended for Feby 31er. This is was in the 3d packet I have received from Petersbourg since I
have been at this place, each of which contained one or more from you. In my
last which I dispatched upon the receipt of your last I gave you a
particular account of what I had received from you & my father. I then promised
to write a sheet full before I slept. I did so and have since almost filled
another but they consist entirely of my journal at my first setting out
from Petersbourg and must be again copied out before it will be right
to send them away. That is a matter will keep very well. It will be good employment
while I am going down the river Tobol to Tobolsk. I hope I may then
write as I used to do in the Trekskint in Holland.

Your Shuffling apparatus may be very clever. When I am in a way
again to shuffle my marginal contents I shall be much obliged
to you for your description at present I have only skimmed it over
without understanding it. My present employment is not so abstract.
Thick deal boards are at present the subject of my attention.

Saws cannot be said to be in use in this country unless it be those that
are worked by water composing ill contrived saw mills. For my Vehicle
I have occasion for some boards about 1/4 of an inch thick. There are
none thinner that 1 inch & 1/2. 3 men have been employed these three
weeks in reducing these to the thinness required. The comfort is that
the pay of these men is not above 8 or 10 copeks pr day, and a greater
comfort is that it is not my money that pays for it.

Identifier: | JB/539/186/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	186	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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