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I should think must be much preferable to
the best part of Scotland: it both as being
more to the south, (For you will find it to the
south even of Newcastle) and as being
much more certain: the constant snow
that covers the earth all the winter must
be a great and sure protection to such vegetables
as will grow in it.

This project would combine extremely
well with your perambulatory commission:
Potemkin's own estates lying in the country in
question, this would of course be one of the first
countries he would think of sending you to.
You will then be paid by government for
pursuing a project which you may perhaps
think it worth while to make
your own. All interests concurring
to favour the event of your appointment
Potemkin's as well as those of his two
fellow-travellers whom I hope I may
with some degree of truth stile his two
favourites; I cannot but entertain pretty
sanguine expectations of its taking place.
If you think Burkit's hundred a year
worth your acceptance, (which I should
imagine you would, considering that
all travelling charges, that is pretty
near all charges will be defray'd besides )
it will require no other effort on their
part than the putting in your name
in the room of Burkit's. In that idea
I

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I should think it might be not ill worth
while for you to look out immediately for
ingenious and trust worthy people in the
capacities that would be wanted: a Mill-wright
for the iron-work, another for the
wood-work, and perhaps if a good Tinker
and a good Cooper could be found
for the Distillery-vesssels, it would be no
bad acquisition. It is hardly probable
you could get all these people even if
the fund provided for their conveyance
should be sufficient to include so many
with their families: which you know
would depend on the number of persons
their families happen'd to consist of. But
the more such associates we think about
and try for, the more chances we have
of succeeding in some instance or other.
The distress which so great a part of Scotland
labours under still, much to be lamented
as it is in itself, may however
perhaps prove favourable to, and receive
a proportionable relief from this
little plan of ours. In particular, some
of your own tenants whom you had in
view when you said you must force
them out you feared, and so reduce
them to beggary, on pain of being
reduced to that situation yourself, some
of these I say might by means of this plan
place themselves in a situation probably better
than

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Date_1	1784-07-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
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