Excerpt of letter concerning arrival of Justus Brandshagen in Scotland

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Memd the Letter is of the 3d of Novr

1716 from Edinburgh that Doctor Brandshagen

arrived there about a fortnight before the Date, where

Sir John Erskine is also arrived and offers to go

and shew where the mine is immediately. But

the Doctor says he cannot proceed on the tryal

or Iourney for want of Money that Mr

Drummond has advanced to him 16li Sterling

for his immediate Subsistance and that of the

Hamilton's, and sends this Account that it may

be seen how this Affair stands there.