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had I received your letter about magnets (which
has been after me to Siberia) before these went
I should not have sent them.
Sir J. Harris is recovered from his long illness and Lady Harris
with his Sister is arrived a few days ago,
I was at the freezing some mercury yesterday it here was all assurance
possible of its being pure & it became as hard as lead.
The thermometers rose & fell very suddenly during the operation
and in a manner to me as yet perfectly unaccountable,
I am affraid of not having leisure to prosecute these
experiments at present.
Remember your old friend Si: I hope you & he are as great
as ever.
No offers are acceptable unless they intent
the people themselves, they never wish to be instructed but when
they ask for instruction. I contend that I should be askd
for my observations and did not wish that the time to have an audience with the Empress till she had seen something from me in writing on the mines. P desired me to give
them to the Empress. I then gave the first paper to him. He promised
to give it immediately and give me an account of it the next day. When I went to him
the next I had the pleasure to find that wonderfully contrary to his general custom
he had kept his word. He told me the Empress had read it with a great deal of attention and
was much pleased with it and very desirous of having it more in detail. I then employed myself
in writing the detail which I here send you and taking care to leave.
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Samuel Bentham |
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