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But he leaves the number of oars and every thing else to me.
Unless I alter my plan I shall have at least 50 oars and perhaps
a length of 100 feet. As I am to give the plan I shall be answerable
for the success and therefore shall desire that I may attend the building
of it as well as the exercising, the management of it, unless more
important employment prevents me and then I should rather
be excused giving the plan, as I should not like to fail in a
trial of skill before her Majesty. This boat will be built at another
estate of the Prince's about 90 versts from hence and perhaps 70 from my
Friends estate, so that in 6 or 7 hours I could be there and by that mean
spend one or two days in the week there all the while I am employed
in this boat. This will be the first employment in which Burkit
may be of use, & I may perhaps write a few lines to him about it.
by the same opportunity. If Anderson therefore is disposed for such an
undertaking or otherwise if he can find any other inducement to pay
me a visit, and can recommend any other person or persons proper
for the business and will bring them out with him, as soon as I
can hear from him concerning the time he will sail from england and by that
means guess at the time he will reach Riga, I would have a boat
sent from Uitepsk which is about 5 Days passage down the Divina to
fetch him and who or what ever he has with him. If Burkit is not
coming or sets out before the time when these things can be settled
he might as well come by the same way and why not your honour also.
It would perhaps be more pleasant ascending in the this manner a
most important river for commerce though at a slow rate on account
of the opposition of the current, than driving post in the most uneasy
carriages by land. The expence would would by that means reduced to
nothing and you would have got an idea of the Country before you

Identifier: | JB/540/038/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	038	Info in main headings field
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