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Crichoff March 30/April 10 1785

Hon:d Sir

The game of Battledore & Shuttlecock with Dutch Ducats has answer'd
for this once rather better than we expected: but there does not seem to be
any great probability, though there is some, of its being soon receiv'd: the
country is poor and the market (to change the metaphor) is soon stocked. Honest
Benson and his Russian guide arrived on Saturday last and
brought back the needful. They had been gone about 7 weeks: we expected
them in about 3: we had charged them to write: no letters from
them had arrived, nor though written have arrived yet: such is the miserable
state of Russian post! A letter of the Governor of Ecatherinoslaw,
from Kremenchuck to Sam was 7 weeks on the road. What would you have
felt if you had been in our case? We felt nothing at all, as we had other
things to think about in plenty.

This post I take but little room having but little time: Of the thousand
things I could tell you, what shall I tell you in that time. Since
we have been here I have paid but one visit & that was to a General Bander's
about 8 versts off: the nearest neighbour we have except some people of inferior
note in the very town. What struck me most was the tables & chairs all
made of pincered work very neatly executed by a peasant of his own whom
he had got instructed for that purpose. These pincering peasants are not uncommon
in Russia: I intend to make Sam have one of them before I
have done with him. Prince Dashcoff has one that executes flowers & landscapes
in this manner: we must send him an apprentice. We have but one
visitor Prince Dashcoff who left us about a week ago having staid
with us about as long. We expect in about a month about a dozen of his
Peasants which are to work under our English Joiners Smiths and Gardener's
in

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Date_1	1785-03-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field
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