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Critchoff Jany 14th. 1785. OS.

I hope that Notman will have done his business and be set off in his
return here before this letter can reach you; but if he should be still
in England endeavour that he or some one whom he brings with him
should make himself master of the method of cutting the sort of iron
skrews which are made to skrew into wood. Those of an inch in length cost
only from 1s„ 9d. to a shilling the gross consisting of 144. It seems therefore
not possible that they should be filed by hand: yet they have not the appearance
of being cut in a lathe. These sort of skrews of different
sizes I am in great want of. Capper will furnish me with some
in the Spring: but as I have frequent occasion for particular kinds
of them which cannot be provided before hand, I shall be obliged
to have them made by hand. I have now taken to Shipbuilding
again with fresh spirit and am in hopes in the course of the Summer
to have tried some interesting experiments. Perhaps I may be able
to make shift without the assistance of any Shipwright; but I am in
great want of a rigger. I do not forget my Amur project,
some of my Shipbuilding experiments are subservient to it, and I
am in hopes of you will find me some assistants. from Should I be engaged in
any other kind of employment which more agreable than such a
distant expedition, I should still wish to have a hand in promoting
it, and might possibly have the direction of it.

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Date_1	1785-01-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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