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[Draft reply by Banks]

Receivd this letter at 2 oClock Sent for Mr.Wapshot [indecipherable] at 3½
orderd

3 Joints
1 dº with an Eye
50 Pair of Screws
2 ground fore bitts
2 Chisell  dº
2 Box  dº
 1 Pair of Spanners
To be ready in a fortnight 

March 25

Honable Gentlemen

on the Receipt of your letter which came to my hands yesterday on Friday in the evening I Immediately sent for Mr. Wapshot the only person resident in London makes boring rods that Resiles in London of whom I propose if you approve to purchase from him one set & to provide another, if found necessary, in same Part of England where Coal mines are workd & the use construction of Boring tools more of course compleatly understood.

Mr Wapshot is Ready to undertake to Provide in the course of a fortnight a set of compleat Rods, for the depth of one hundred yards. The weight which with all the apparatus will be about  
8 cwt & the cost about £40 or to Provide a set of Joints, Taps, & Screws, with wrenches bitts drills etc, leaving the Iron bars to be supplied then in New South Wales, which & this apparatus will will weigh about 5 cwt & cost about £28.

if the second offer is approvd, the bars, which are one inch & quarter, maybe

            

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