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<p>I am writing now with a silver pen being one of the divers articles | |||
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which I <sic>stript</sic> me elder brother of. It makes one of the set of | |||
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instruments I have in <del><gap/></del> the pocket <add>Book</add> which I have had of Blamire | |||
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as the present you were so kind as to offer me. I have had <del>an</del><add>many</add>other | |||
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instruments <unclear><del>a</del>next<del><gap/></del></unclear> to it which I ha<del>ve</del>d<!-- "had" over-writing "have" --> before <add>or bought myself since</add> but yet I fear you | |||
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will find that I am not to be trusted again with the unbounded off<gap/><!-- "offer"? --> | |||
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of a pocket book with instruments. It is excedingly large and contains | |||
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a great variety of <sic>usefull</sic> <foreign>vade mecums</foreign>.</p> | |||
<p><unclear>This day</unclear> Morning</p> | |||
at about 7 o'Clock this morning <unclear>we</unclear> came to anchor about 5 or 6 miles | |||
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short of Hellvoetsluys. here we lost our tide and as the wind is against | |||
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us we cannot <sic>procede</sic> till the turn of the tide which will be about | |||
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1 or 2 o'Clock. We have | |||
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I am writing now with a silver pen being one of the divers articles
which I stript me elder brother of. It makes one of the set of
instruments I have in the pocket Book which I have had of Blamire
as the present you were so kind as to offer me. I have had anmanyother
instruments anext to it which I haved before or bought myself since but yet I fear you
will find that I am not to be trusted again with the unbounded off
of a pocket book with instruments. It is excedingly large and contains
a great variety of usefull vade mecums.
This day Morning
at about 7 o'Clock this morning we came to anchor about 5 or 6 miles
short of Hellvoetsluys. here we lost our tide and as the wind is against
us we cannot procede till the turn of the tide which will be about
1 or 2 o'Clock. We have
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Identifier: | JB/538/366/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538. |
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1779-08-30 |
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366 |
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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