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I had a secret wish to go notwithstanding I thought it proper
to propose Siberia. The Saltworks are on the borders of
the white Sea and it is from the Sea water the salt is to
be made. There is a great plenty of wood for fuel: but
the Salt which has hitherto been made there has been
always so bitter and so unfit for preserving meat as to be almost useless. This must
I presume be owing entirely to the method of preparing
it. It is not likely that the Salt Sea water there
differs materially from Seawater at other parts of the
world, but and I imagine it is the boiling away
the water without giving the common salt time to
christalize before the noxious one that is the cause
of the impurity.

I was with Mr Bes: on Fryday last
and he put me off till Tuesday which is tomorrow. I do
not however expect to have any thing finally settled
for 2 or 3 weeks at least yet.

I know nothing as yet about the rank or appointments she
which will be offered me. Bes: tells me without my
beginning the subject that the Empress wishes to have me
and that I may depend upon it I shall have every reason
to be satisfied with in both respects.

I have received yours of the 26th July: but As to Sykes
I wish to hear no more from him unless he write by Sea
when he has something very material to say so as for it to
be worth while to take a great deal of pains: for I cannot
make out any thing of what he wrote last.

Identifier: | JB/539/395/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-08-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	395	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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