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Colonel Bentham received us very graciously and I
and I. Bell were sent to live with I. Notman at the
Coll's Country House while Two Rooms were fitting
up for me at the Sail-tuck Factory, so that it was the
latter end of July before I got started with my Business
when I shifted to the Factory, and had Four Russian
Boys allotted me to instruct, who had been some
kind of Heechless before; These are yet under my
Care, and all my present Employment is making
up their work and attending our Hemp-beating,
at a kind of rude Mill constructed for that purpose
Six or seven years ago; so that I have little to do
but walk about at present, therefore have time
enough for my old amusement of writing which
you may be sure I do not forget.

One of the greatest difficulties I have found here,
and I believe it has been so with the rest, was my
Ignorance of the Language; I thought it at first a
Collection of the strangest Sounds that ever invaded
my Ears, but by the help of Industry however and
application I have got a slight knowledge of it,
and feel myself on that account a great deal
easier.

I have likewise in my Dealings with the Jews, from
whom we buy almost all the Necessaries of Life, got
some German Words, and likewise some French ones
from my own Grammer. to know the Russ is hardly
enough here; for though the Jews speak it they speak
it very badly and are always blabbering out their
own Linga, This consequently brings one acquainted
with the German of which their Language is a Dialect,

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Date_1	1786-02-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	247	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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