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so as soon as they have been long enough afloat in the current
as to have acquired its velocity must move equally swift.
excepting any influence which the different velocities which
the one part of the current may have compared to the other,
as also the influence of any extraneous force as that of the
wind may have on one more than on the other, A cork and
a first rate man of war I have always been told go down
the Thames with the same velocity when there be no wind.
I told them so; but their experience had taught them better than
to belive me. They assured me a greater bark would pass by a
smaller one although both were of equal depth in the water.
and that the shape also made a difference. Both parties were
obstinate each in his own opinion, and no opportunity then afforded
itself to decide the matter by experiment. Indeed I was too fully
persuaded that the difference if any in the velocities must depend
upon the wind or some such foreign power that I dec'd not to think
the experiment worth trying.

it happened however the year
after as I was descending the river Angara from Irkutsk to
Yenereisk that a regret at passing by a delightfull scene made
me take notice of the velocity with which the bark I was in



Identifier: | JB/539/441/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.

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1783-10-19

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441

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Samuel Bentham

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