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as I now have but an hour or two before the post goes out.

At Archangel several ships have been built privately on account of
English merchants loaded with merchandize from home and
sailed under Russian colours to England where they are as it
were sold to these merchants on whose account they are built
They were afterwards resold or let out to Government as transports.
During my stay at Archangel I got very particular accounts
of this but as well as of the price of building &c but as I
have not my papers by me I cannot make my account
at present more particular. The sometimes nearly
paid for the Ship. In like manner I have a great notion
ships may be built near the black sea at the mouth of
the Dnieper where I have likewise been, but there they
may built of oak little inferior to that of the production
of our own country. — The greatest part of the loading
at from Archangel was of naval stores in like manner
the greatest part or the whole might be so from the black
sea. The loading as well as ships themselves might steer
there course for all I can see to the contrary straight
to his majesty's dockyards. There assisted by previous
preparations in their building they might be converted
to store ships, armed ships, or even ships if not frigates of war.

I am well persuaded that I could find means of having
the ships as well built as the general base of those that are built in England.
My friend who particularly wishes much to trade from
the black sea and who indeed does make it trade thither in some degree, &
particularly wants my assistance in that business, I dare
to say would undertake this business A circumstance
greatly the idea of selling the Ships is that the merchandize
from these parts would be all of the bulky & or heavy kind
besides being in greater quantity than what would be required
from England in exchange & therefore one ship to return

Why not provision such as flower
Portable soup where cattle is so amazingly cheap.

Identifier: | JB/539/292/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1782-06-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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