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support, fronting this platform at the other end of the Barge is a
platform somewhat similar for the same purpose. —

The 3.d 4.th & 5.th Link being left out the 1.st 2.d & 6.th form a princely
rowing Boat; in that case Her Majesty may seat herself on a Sopha towards
the Stern formed of a neat kind of platted work of red edged with Chocolate —
Colour, (the Colour of Wedgwoods Ware) with Cushions of Stuffed Leather. —

I wish you may be able to make anything of this general Description,
for Drawing I have neither Skill not Instruments. It cost my Brother three
days hard Labour to make a representation of it in paper something between
a Model and a Drawing to give the Prince some Idea of it when he followed him
in the winter to Cherson and the Crimea, as mentioned in a former Letter. This
Drawing he wished much to send to you as it would be possible to have done
in a Letter, and I had taken it at one time for that purpose but he —
thinking of an occasion that might occur of producing it before her —
Majesty &c put by the sending it for the present. His intention was then to
endeavor so to do through the Channel of Mr Fitzherbert upon their return;
but I know not but you may have a powerful Rival in the Grand Duke
who having hear of the Barge has desired to have some kind of —
representation of it, tho' my Brother is not yet acquainted with his Imperial
Highnesses pleasure. —

Of the mode of Junction I know not how to give you any tolerable
Idea; I do not perfectly understand it myself the Mechanism being mostly
concealed by the Structure of the parts. The Stern of the Head Link —
for Example is Concave, the Head of the Second Link is Convex fitting exactly into
that convexity cavity In the concavity, between the Upper Edge of the Boat and
the water runs an Horizontal Groove, the Connection is formed by an Iron
Bar which is fixed in the second Link playing, turning, I believe, there
round a perpendicular fulcrum and running upon friction Rollers in
the Horizontal Groove; in the Breech of the first Link the length of the —
Bar is divided as it were by a Hinge, which lying Horizontally, paralel
to the Horizontal Groove of course gives room for that part of the Bar

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Date_1	1787-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
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