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They have connections respecting Ships hired here for
Transports &c. &c This is the man who is consulted
with respect to all Mechanical Engines erected at the public
expence such as Mills steam Engines &c. but he never
gets a farthing by anything of this kind. He has stolen
all my new Mechanical ideas from me behaps 20
years before I was born. He will look at a Machine
tell you of it will answer without making use of of
one x+y: Yet if he pleases he can wrap it up
in the most sublime expressions. He and his father
together have made experiments for these and observations
for these 50 years past relating to the preservation of
Timber in ships. It is now upwards of 20 years ago
that they had experienced the efficacy of a method they
had discovered of preparing the Timber at the expence of
a very few pounds.

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Identifier: | JB/538/385/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-10-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	385	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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