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and in that time rode about twelve hundred
Versts in their Country I returned well pleased
with my Journey, as I had an Englishman
with me a Lieutenant in one of my Batallions he
kept a Journal of our Tour in English, you shall
one day or other have a Copy of it; This Englishman
is son of a gentleman of property in Newcastle
He served at the taking of Ochakoff, and then at
his desire was sent to me by the Prince Potemkin
He arrived just in time to accompany me to the
Kirgese, and as I have various Propositions to
make to the Prince I am preparing to dispatch
this Mr Newton Express to Petersburg.

I am at present at Tobolsk, in the month of June
I was here in my way to my Batallion, and I
then dispatched the Englishman I had brought with
me from Cherson to examine the mouth of the
River Ob and a Small Part of the Coast of the White
Sea with a view of attempting a Communication
with Archangel

There is no doubt of this passage being, at certain
times, practicable but the object is the ascertaining
the degree of danger and delay occasioned by the Drifts
of Ice which even in Summer by certain winds are
brought upon the Coast so as to interrupt entirely
the

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Identifier: | JB/541/094/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-12-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
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