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Tell me where the Docks are: whether there
are any at Archangel: any at Woronitz, as
there were in Peter's time: or whether they are
now transferred to Azoph or any other place
in the Black Sea? Are there any at Astracan?
Would they like to have me there or elsewhere in the Caspian? & would
you like to have the making of it? En tout
cas, if yhou are to run up & down the country
you should have travelling charges over & above
your salary.
Anderson has just given in to the Royal
Society a paper about Potatoes. He has fermented <lb/them and distilled an cardinal
Spirit from
them which he insists upon it is fully equal
to French Brandy. It is free from the
flavour of the malt, and it has besides a
fine flavour of its own (he says) like Raspberries.
he is this instant making some & if the experiment
succeeds, you will have some of it with
the first cargo. He recommends tu cull of Potatoes
for for this purpose. I asked him how much
spirit might be got from an acre of Potatoes
in comparison of what might be got from an
acre of wheat? His answer was ten times as
much. It seemed to me a good opportunity
for you to figure away at your oeconomic
society and show that you are not an idle
member. He gets about a gallon from 1/2 a 100
of potatoes. The fermentation is just begun:
but it will be a fortnight before it is completed.
I proposed to him that he should get
a copy of his paper taken and give it to me
to send it to you, adding that I would undertake
for your getting it translated into French
& publishing it in giving it in his name. This I make
no doubt you will be glad to do. You may
add as your motive for wishing to have it
public there, your own idea that Potatoes would
be
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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