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my desire as you will be see by the last paragraph of my paper
is to go <a/dd> down and take possession of my command as soon
as it is given me and but as soon as I have got full
accounts of everything and found out who I can best trust
ti I then mean to return here which I hope would be
in the course of this next winter. My wish then is to go
through Sweden to England and pay you all a visit.
I should have <add>then not only have seen what people and machines
are wanting but I hope also I should have made agreements
with private people upon some such terms as
I have mentioned and should therefore know what
I should have occasion for to assist me in those
undertakings, as well as what I should want for the service of
the crown. With respect to workmen however particularly for
the mines it would be from Germany not from England that
I should think of procuring them, and of those as few as possible, for
I wish to shew what Russians can be made to do.
I believe there are upwards of 50 thousand men attached to the
several works in question. Of the greatest part of them however
it is only required that they cut down a certain quantity of
wood instead of paying head money.
My prospects app are very fair, but I consider nothing as
certain. As however the empress has said it shall be, every
body else speaks of my being in her service as certain absolutely fixed
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Samuel Bentham |
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