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If the decomposition of common salt so as to obtain the fossil alkali
be practicable to advantage in England, it may probably be so to a
greater advantage here. I know not the price of Salt in England.
Here is is four pence 3 farthings a hundred weight at the manufactory: from
thence the transport to Petersbourg is nearly 15 pence pr hundred
weight, but as the fossil alkali makes but a part of the weight of
the salt and w the separation might be made at near at the place where
the salt itself is made, this 15 pence pr ct is to be a counted only
in the price of the alkali. Here are lakes in this country
from which Salt may be obtained much cheaper but then the salt
consists of the fossil alkali neutralized by the other acids as well
as the marine, both Vitriolic & Nitrous. Would the means cc.
question serve also to create decompose the such compound salts.
& The improvements to be made in this country and particularly this
part of it are so great & many, and the attention to proposals
of improvement so great where they can find their way to the Sovereign
that I cannot but determine in making some proposals at my
return to Petersbourg. This Government of Perme and indeed
Siberia in general, together with the Government of
New Russia seems particularly to engage the attention of Her Majesty.
I have at least a dozen chosen inventions relating to the workers From which
However dear the fuel may be at that place and however distant from the mine, every inconvenience must
itself give way to the circumstance of a waterfall. It is then on rivers where a waterfall can be made alone
that fabricks are erected, for the working over perhaps 200 versts from the mine. All this expence and
inconvenience may be saved by the construction of furnaces which require no bellows or which in themselves
are capable of providing the primary mobile for moving bellows. Wind I first thought of for that
purpose but then in case of there however must be kept a number of horses or oxen to supply the place
of the wind, for the furnaces must never be stopt or heat is lost. For pounding the & c
wind may be advantageously applied. All these I have ready contrived but for the
Steam Engine although I could contrive one I would wish to profit by Bolton's invention. He has
most likely thought of what I may omit.
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