The manuscript of the translation of the article by the Swedish mineralogist Thorburn Bergman, made at the Nerchinsk mines in 1780 by A.M.Karamyshev and E.E.Barbot de Marney, kept in the Main Library of SPGGI, is examined in detail for the first time. The manuscript is the first work in Russian devoted to the soldering tube, in the terms of the 18th century - an "experimental fifka". A full bibliographic description of the manuscript is given and the circle of persons whose fates are connected with this manuscript is indicated.