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Bender Septr 18. OS 1790.

I have been here near a week, but Prince Potemkin was gone
to Cherson Ochakoff &c and is expected back every hour. I can not
therefore tell you any thing new about how I shall be disposed of.
Count Langeron a french man who has been serving as Volonteer
against the Swedes & now come to do the same against the Turks
having a sudden occasion to set off for Paris takes this letter with him.

The Prince is arrived, I dined with him & he spoke more with me than
with any body. Siberia was of course the subject; but when I shall
be able to talk to him sufficiently to determine my future plans is
not to be guessed at. In the mean time I profit of this opportunity
to let tell you that I have concerns with the Fur Trade from
Kamchatka and on that account wish much for every information
of what is done or done on that part of America by England
& other nations. Moreover I shall perhaps send a party
from the coast of America about Cook's river or elsewhere
across land to Hudson's bay towards fort York or wherever
it seems most advisable. for this purpose could you
contrive to send me immediately the name & situation with
respect to longitude & latitude of the most western settlement
belonging to Hudson's back & to learn whether any incursions
have been made towards our American sea. What people

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