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I am writing now with a silver pen being one of the divers articles
which I stript my 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 put 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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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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