1215. CHERBOURG, Expense of.—
That work will be steadily pursued, and, in all
probability, be finally successful. They calculate
on half a million of livres, say twenty thousand
pounds sterling, for every cone, and that
there will be from seventy to eighty cones.
Probably they must make more cones. Suppose
one hundred; this will be two millions of
pounds sterling. Versailles has cost fifty millions
of pounds sterling. Ought we to doubt
then that they will persevere to the end in a
work, small and useful in proportion as the
other was great and foolish?—
To Mr. Cutting. Washington ed. ii, 438.
(P.
1788)
