Letter 1710

[fol. 211] Sr Upmr Dec: 7 1710 I could not meet with the surveyor till yester- day, he having been engaged in business from hom till this week. I went to his house on Monday, but missed of him. He is a man I know understands his business as well as any man, doth it with great exactness, & adorns his map well, but I think his workmanship, for surveying, casting up, setting down trees & Map- ping it all. I bade him but 6d, I know I could have had it done for yt, at most for 8d p acre by a good artist; but he is lately dead. I doubt not but you may have it done at that rate by some London Surveyor, it being the common price. I propose whoever you employ, will not care to set a- bout it before Spring, as the Rumford Surveyor de- sired the liberty of; so yt you will have time e- nough to chuse your Surveyor. Whoever you em- ploy let me know of it & I will oversee him, because I pretend to know something of the mat- ter. I looked about yesterday for Culverwell at Rumford (whither ye Orset Farmers assert) in or- der to appoint a day to assign him Gate boot, &c but not finding him, & it being no hasty work to be done in short days, I shall defer it longer till my Preparations for Boyls Le will afford me more time. I have some thoughts of being in London on Monday in order to take the ABs directions about Boyls lectures next year, as I think I ought in manners to do. Either yt day or ye next morning I hope to be a- ble to reach you, & beg the favr of you to lend me the Posthumous works of Sturmius: Sr P: Browns Treat. of ye Quincux; Lud. De Beau forts Cosmopeoia sacras Cartelius Mozaizans; Dr Fairfaxs Sel- vage of the World; & the divine History of the Genesis of the World or what of them your curious Library affords. I do not know wt reputation these tracts may deserve. & consequently whether I shall need remove them, but I am desirous to see what they drive at. And for these & all other favrs I shall allways esteem my self Sr your much obliged humble servt Wm Derham My humble service to your Lady. My little Girls sight begins to be better with the use of Aselli. I give her 20 every morning but doubt whether the number be right, & whether they ought to be given oftener. If you favr me with a Lr, be pleased to direct me.