your important avocations will allow you time. 
It is a great concern to me, that the immenfe 
labours of my very burdenfome and fatiguing poll 
will not allow me to follow my inclination for the itu- 
dy of nature, and for curious and ufeful enquiries into 
the phyiical fciences, which would enable me to 
fatisfy the defire I know your Excellency has to ac- 
quire a particular knowledge of the properties and 
produce of this country, which well deferve the atten- 
tion of the learned, and would require an abler hand 
and more leifure than I am mailer of. 
The more I examine this country, the more I find 
it worthy of the clofeil attention. The air and moil 
of the waters are excellent, the foil is fruitful, and 
produces all that can be imagined. With a little 
more application and induilry, and if the inhabitants 
would diveil themfelvesof their old prejudices, it might 
eaiily be made a moil delightful and wealthy country. 
Your Excellency’s time is too well employed to be 
wailed in reading voluminous epiilles, wherefore 
1 ihall put an end to this letter, that has already 
taken up too many of your moments ; but cannot 
conclude without renewing the proteilations of the 
iincere and inviolable reipedl and attachment, with 
which I have the honour to fubfcribe myfelf. 
From Fort Omfk, 
March 26th, 
1762. 
Sir, Your Excellency’s 
ilk. Moil obedient humble Servant* 
W. W. Weymarn. 
The 
