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wrote to you in my last. I mean that the work which requires
10 hours for a man to do in the present method he shall do in
10 minutes by my machine and much better in quality. That the general idea of the
machine can be made to succede is what I have not the least doubt
of. How far my abilities with respect to invention and my patience in
the pursuing the experiment alternative which may be necessary after trial will
carry me I shall see in time. I have however set a man to work on a
model and shall in a day or two set half a dozen more to begin the
machine itself and the dread of shame if nothing else will carry me through it.
Keep however, I beg of you, your former ideas of its coming to nothing,
and recollect that it will not be the first project which I pursued at
first with vigour and dropt again without fruit.
If I sucede in this to my wishes I shall most likely return immediately to
Petersbourg to take the such steps as may turn it most to my advantage.
I reckon upon 2 months that as necessary to make any trial. You who
may imagine my calculation is very bare may set down 3 4 or 5 before
you will expect that I shall give you any amount of the result.
Give me only in the mean time your prayers
that I may be endowed with
perseverance. Amen. Don't find fault with the coarseness of my paper,
I am just going to write a few lines on more of the same to a Governor
who has some hundreds of thousands of people under his Government. Adieu.
The making the master of the fabrick where I am some return for the
obligation I shall be under to him for the work which has been done for me
first put one in the head of erecting such a machine for him. Otherwise
there are other places where I could have made my trials of it.
I hear that the best house in Tobolsk has been got ready for me
for this month past. I have at present possession of the best house in
Catherineberg where I left all my books & other things, with a Soldier to take care
of them. I shall however desire my books to be sent to me.
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Samuel Bentham |
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