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were disposed, dare to give me such | <p>were disposed, dare to give me such vexations as I<lb/>sometimes experienced when you were with me.</p> | ||
<p>I do not speak of the officers & others under my <lb/>Command for they for the most part are no better<lb/>fit for Society than those with whom you saw<lb/>me; but here, at Tobolsk, at least I can associate<lb/>with People of Philosophy, Talents and Amicability<lb/>which I could find but with difficulty in the<lb/>Capital.<lb/></p> | |||
<p>Moreover the variety of my Projects and a present <lb/>good state of Health leave nothing but my <lb/>attachments in England to cause me any regret</p> | |||
<p>If you should on any account be disagreeably<lb/>circumstanced at home, and if your Pursuits<lb/>should not absolutely require your presence there<lb/>I know no place or circumstance that would<lb/>suit you so well as This; perhaps no where<lb/>People out of England better able to converse<lb/>on your Projects those you would find here<lb/>for besides that from the distance from the<lb/>Capital a Man must be enterprising to wish<lb/>to serve here, from having been too enterprising<lb/>to be bourne with near the residence of <!-- a curlicued line --></p> | |||
<p>I send by this same opportunity a Copy of a<lb/>Journal of my Excursion among the Kirgese<lb/>badly written by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Newton, still worse copied<lb/>by another Englishman but it may amuse you <lb/><note>fo for an hour</note></p><pb/> | |||
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were disposed, dare to give me such vexations as I
sometimes experienced when you were with me.
I do not speak of the officers & others under my
Command for they for the most part are no better
fit for Society than those with whom you saw
me; but here, at Tobolsk, at least I can associate
with People of Philosophy, Talents and Amicability
which I could find but with difficulty in the
Capital.
Moreover the variety of my Projects and a present
good state of Health leave nothing but my
attachments in England to cause me any regret
If you should on any account be disagreeably
circumstanced at home, and if your Pursuits
should not absolutely require your presence there
I know no place or circumstance that would
suit you so well as This; perhaps no where
People out of England better able to converse
on your Projects those you would find here
for besides that from the distance from the
Capital a Man must be enterprising to wish
to serve here, from having been too enterprising
to be bourne with near the residence of
I send by this same opportunity a Copy of a
Journal of my Excursion among the Kirgese
badly written by Mr Newton, still worse copied
by another Englishman but it may amuse you
fo for an hour
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