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The Fortress of Kerekoff Siberia
within 600 miles of the Chinese
Sept.r 10. 1789.

Hond Father

You will be astonished to receive
a Letter from this Part of the World.
Prince Potemkin has thought proper
to send me here to a Col.l Bentham
an Englishman; This Gentleman
is now only thirty years old
He explored great part of Siberia
at the age of Twenty. His Report
of that Country pleased her Majesty
so much, that he has now the
command of two Battallions and
a Commission to go where he will
upon discovery, even to pass the
Frontiers any where. He has
six English Saylers, who are now
upon an Expedition to find a Passage
from Tobolsky to Archangel,
another Party of People in the
Chinese Tartary. He and I set
out tomorrow with a proper
Guard into the Mountainous Country
of

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