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Whitchurch Hants July 1784
Dear Sir

In the first place let me acknowledge
your favour of June 7: it did
not reach me here till the . I am
sincerely concerned to hear that times are
so bad in Aberdeenshire. I wish to God
some little matter, it can be but little
may be got to help them from the
Russian employment, if that should
be obtainable: should that be the case I am
happy to have it in my power to say
it is all your own: by the death of
the relation whose executorship has called
me hither I have got a trifle which
though nothing near equal to the trifle I
had before, yet when added to that
will set me a little more at my ease
than I have been, and save me from
the having recourse to such expedients
as nothing but necessity would have
driven me to.

With regard to the Queries, I you
have misapprehended the design I had
in troubling you with them, owing I
believe to my not having sufficiently
explained it. Far from expecting answers
from

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you, if I had my wish about the matter
it was rather that you should look
them over with a view to see whether
you could add any thing to the number
of the questions. The use of them was to
serve as a guide to my brother in the
forming of the calculations which well
or ill made would be necessary to determine
the conduct of the undertaking
he had in contemplation. Some of them
are of a local nature, and could only
be answer'd on the sport: if I looked
for any assistance from you towards
the finding answers for any of them, it could
only be for a very few, such as those
respecting the cattle, whether they
could be worked at all while they were
fatting, whether the oil-cakes gave
them any bad flavour or other quality,
whether by any and what means
and in what time at which place the & c that quality would
be removed without prejudice to the
accession of fat given them by the grains.
I speak pretty much at random,
not having any copy of the queries
by me. Whether the finding an accurate
solution to a set of problems of
that nature be an achievement commonly
performed
I

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