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Petersburg Octr 15 1783

I don't know whether I told you
of a discovery I had made with
respect to Bodies floating down
a River with the Stream, I will
endeavour to give you some
account of it, and of the
manner in which it suggested
itself to me; While I was
at Nigni Taghil in Siberia
there were several Barks of
different sizes built for the
transporting of Iron down
the River from Tobolsk;
— The People in authority there
happened one day to have
occasion to speak of the
advantage with respect
to Expedition that the larger
Bark would have over the
smaller one. This appeared
to use

Identifier: | JB/539/436/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	436	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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