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<The worst of this Expedition is that at my return from it Gen: Lambe the Governor was set off to
make a visit to the principal town within this Government to commence the new mode of Jurisdiction
Thus I was desired of by far the best source of information I could have had with respect to the laws & state of the country.
If all Governors were like him this would be the most enviable of all countries. I regretted my not being
able to profit by his company the more as I was thus prevented completing a little account of the laws which I had
fully intended & I believe indeed promised to send you now. However I shall see him again I hope on my return
to and besides shall find now some other means of informing myself fully. I was kept a long time at Perme
partly in waiting for an officer who accompanies me the rest of my journey, and for a week all the world
was ill of a cold & sore throat. I was however fully employed in informing myself of the method of raising
for the army which takes place now pretty regularly once a year; and in putting to rights some papers
and settling with my Interpreter when as well as my servant I have discharged & packed off to Petersbourg.
I have now an Officer & two soldiers, one a Grenadier. With these I am obliged to speak Russian
and as the Officer is exceedingly intelligent I am much happier with this new arrangement. I send you a translation
made by my Interpreter of the order which this Officer received to go with me. I have sent for you to Petersbourg from whence
the first opportunity it will be forwarded to England, a small packet containing a drawing of my amphibious Carriage a
copy of which the Empress has seen I believe before this time: also a few specimens of some of the mineral production of this
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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