More antique Russian

[William Ryan]

To repeat a complaint made often enough before, if SEELANGers respond 
off-list to requests for information this not only leads to unnecessary 
duplication of effort, it defeats the whole purpose of the list, which 
is to exchange information and opinion. In this particular interesting 
case I would quite like to know if anyone has come up with a better 
explanation of the apparently defective agreement of 'perevezeno' in 
your problem passage.

Will

On 09/07/2010 11:16, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> William Ryan wrote:
>
>> Paul - since no one else has commented (summer vacation?), I can make
>>  few points:
>>
>> скаскою (skazkoiu) here means 'in a report'; the Berg-Kollegiia was
>> one of the 12 quasi-ministries set up by Peter the Great and
>> continued until the early 19th c. - it dealt with mines and minerals;
>> the missing first digit in the dates is quite normal in this period;
>> peredvoit' is to distill a second time (see Dal'), thus peredvoika =
>> secondary distillation; dostatok = a quantity, a supply.
>>
>> The syntax is indeed convoluted, and the grammatical agreement
>> peculiar, but fairly typical of 18th c. officialese. I would guess
>> the meaning to be:
>>
>> On the 19th of that October the aforementioned Priadunov in a 
>> presentation to the Berg-Kollegia displayed a quantity [of naphtha, 
>> i.e. petroleum] brought by him, Priadunov, and in 1746 and 1747 on 
>> the first of May [he brought] 40 puds of Russian naphtha [obtained] 
>> in the Pustozersk district on the river Ukhta to the laboratory of 
>> the Berg Kollegiia in Moscow, all of which was double distilled by 
>> the same Priadunov. And after the second distillation there appeared 
>> two thirds of pure naphtha, 26 puds, 26 and a half pounds in weight.
>>
>> Perhaps someone can refine this further (pardon the pun).
>
> Actually, several other people did help me, but they all wrote 
> privately, so I assume they prefer not to be publicly acclaimed for 
> their valuable contributions.
>
> Still, your remarks confirmed what the others said, and filled in a 
> gap with скаскою (сказкою as you say). Thank you.
>

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