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I suppose it is the varnishing the Copper which is the which is the method superior.
I send you a copy of both letters for your amusement.
What the deuce is come to you that makes you so inquisitive about affairs between
man & wife you are told that Sir Gilbert Elliot goes to fetch Lady Harris
to England to see her friends and the knowing ones in such matters conclude
there must be a misunderstanding between them. Let the prattlers settle
the matter among themselves or put on petticoats.
You tell me Howard is set out for Petersbourg. He must be there then long
before now. I wonder my letters from thence dont mention his arrival as
they are of 20/31 July. I may probably write to a letter to him at least
I have such an idea in my head just this minute.
To Hamburg I will write but not these month or 6 weeks when I shall have
something more amusing to tell him of. I mean after the opening of the new
Government.
At Mr Pogodaskin's where I have told you on my having just now been
I was delighted to find the Encyclopaedia. I spent almost 2 days in reading several
different articles in it. The article moulin a vent furnished me with almost all the
information I wished for on that head.
The appearance of the country I have been passing through in this excursion is in
general very beautifull:
a great part of the way I appeared to be riding through an
English park. The weather was very fine. the hay perfumed the air, and one can
seldom go 10 or a dozen miles without meeting a river or rivulet. Birch trees
and the several different kinds of fir form the principal parts of the woods. The
larch tree is in great abundance and grows to a great size but is a very unprofitable
production in this part of the country, though so very valuable near Arcangel. It is the
the best wood of the fir tribe for building ships & little inferior to the oak of this country.
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Samuel Bentham |
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