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Copy ) S.B. to Sir James Harris

18th May 1781.

Nigno Tagnil, alias Nignora Taghilisky
Savod, alias the lower Fabric, situated on
the Taghil.

Sir

As at my coming to this place, I was in want of a carriage for
the summer roads, & under some difficulty about the procuring one, I was
very glad to accept the offer which Mr Dimidoff's Intendants made me, of
building me one, in consequence of a letter I brought them from Martan.
Finding some very good workmen, I determined to put into execution an idea
I had of an amphibious carriage, which might serve me as a boat; to go
down the rivers in, & as an easy wheel carriage by land. The construction
of such a machine being entirely different from any work the men had
been accustomed to it was necessary that I should work myself at such parts
as I could not make the workmen understand. This has detained me such a
length of time, as, had I had the least apprehension of it at first, would have
prevented my engaging in it. As however I have got so far in it, I will
certainly now complete it. The tediousness with which this work has gone on,
owing to the badness of the instruments in use here, at the same time that it
brought into my mind an invention of mine, which I spoke of to your
Excellence before I left Petersburgh, gave me a further opportunity of judging
of the assistance such a machine would be of in all kinds of working in wood.
As the idea of such a machine first occurred to me since I have been in Russia,
& as it is so particularly adapted to a country where there is so much building
going forward, I all along wished to introduce it before I left this country. I
intended to have waited till my return to Petersburgh; partly indeed, upon the
supposition that, from time to time, I might render the invention more perfect.
I have, within these few days, brought it entirely to my satisfaction. the obligations

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