XXX. History of the Boat which gave Peter the Great the first Thought of building the Russian Fleet

Abstract

Among the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum there is one, entitled “The Story of the Ship's Boat which gave Peter the Great the first Thought of building the Russian Fleet.”I am not aware that it has been in print; nor have I found it known to persons whose literary means, and whose knowledge of all which has been published in this or any other country relating to Russia, has enabled them to call such a Tract to recollection. It must have been written more than a century ago, since it is found in Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Manuscripts, which was transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum in, or soon after, 1753.