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<p> Petersburg Oct<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 15 1783</p><p>I don't know whether I told you <lb/>of a discovery I had made with <lb/> respect to Bodies floating down<lb/> a River with the Stream, I will <lb/> endeavour to give you some<lb/> account of it, and of the <lb/> manner in which it suggested<lb/> itself to me; While I was <lb/> at Nigni Taghil in Siberia <lb/> there were several <sic>Barks</sic> of <lb/> different sizes built for the <lb/> transporting of Iron down <lb/>the River from Tobolsk; <lb/> — The People in authority there<lb/> happened one day to have <lb/> occasion to speak of the <lb/> advantage with respect <lb/> to Expedition that the larger<lb/> Bark would have over the <lb/> smaller one. This appeared<lb/> <add> to use</add> </p> | <p> Petersburg Oct<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 15 1783</p> | ||
<p>I don't know whether I told you <lb/>of a discovery I had made with <lb/> respect to Bodies floating down<lb/> a River with the Stream, I will <lb/> endeavour to give you some<lb/> account of it, and of the <lb/> manner in which it suggested<lb/> itself to me; While I was <lb/> at Nigni Taghil in Siberia <lb/> there were several <sic>Barks</sic> of <lb/> different sizes built for the <lb/> transporting of Iron down <lb/>the River from Tobolsk; <lb/> — The People in authority there<lb/> happened one day to have <lb/> occasion to speak of the <lb/> advantage with respect <lb/> to Expedition that the larger<lb/> Bark would have over the <lb/> smaller one. This appeared<lb/> <add> to use</add> </p> | |||
Petersburg Octr 15 1783
I don't know whether I told you
of a discovery I had made with
respect to Bodies floating down
a River with the Stream, I will
endeavour to give you some
account of it, and of the
manner in which it suggested
itself to me; While I was
at Nigni Taghil in Siberia
there were several Barks of
different sizes built for the
transporting of Iron down
the River from Tobolsk;
— The People in authority there
happened one day to have
occasion to speak of the
advantage with respect
to Expedition that the larger
Bark would have over the
smaller one. This appeared
to use
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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