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Ladobras near Crichoff
June 25/14 1787
(receiv'd Augt 28th)
Hon'd Sir,
If the Description I sent you 5 or 6 weeks ago of my Brother's
Serpentine Barge &c ,and the account of the short Voyage I took
with him in it in his way to Kieff, Kremenchuck, & Cherson,
have reached your hands, you cannot but have felt some
Impatience to hear further Tidings of his Adventure.
It is now for the first time in my power to afford you some
sort of Intelligence, tho' very imperfect, coming through a
Russian medium, and not directly from himself.
On Saturday last I received a Visit from one of my Brother's Officers
who taking Notman for his Interpreter brought with him a Letter,
he had received the Thursday before, from the Batallion Surgeon
who accompanied my Brother. The Letter was dated from
Kremenchook May 23/June 3
Mr Brother in the Grand Barge arrived, it seems at Kremenchook
the 9th day after his departure from Monasterue, where he and I
embarked, consequently the 7th day from Propoisk, where I left
him.
Eighteen days, the time in which the same Voyage was
performed last Autumn by an ordinary Experimental
Barge of his Construction was a time much shorter than
that Voyage had ever been performed in before.
In his way to Kremenchuck he passed of Course by Kieff,
there he learn'd that the Empress had left that place, travelling by
Land, but two hours before he arrived there; accordingly he
stayed there not a moment, but embarked on for Kremenchuck
towards which Place he was informed, She had bent her Course.
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