200 ENGINES FOR SOUTH AMERICA. 



drawings. If you call at Camborne about Friday, shall be able 

 to show you the designs. The drawings for the castings will be 

 sent to the iron-founders by the end of this week ; and by the 

 end of next week shall have the whole of the different trades- 

 men in full employ. If you wish to have a greater quantity of 

 machinery ready by the end of September, there ought to be as 

 little time as possible lost in giving your orders. I can get you 

 double the quantity, provided you give the orders in time. 



" As soon as it is convenient to you to arrange the payments 

 I would thank you to inform me, because we find in practice 

 that the best way to make a labouring machine turn quickly on 

 its centres, is to keep them well oiled. 



" E. T. 



" F. UVILLE, Esq., ME. HOOPER'S, FaLmouth. 



" N.B. If you intend to be at Camborne, please to drop me 

 a note by post, and I will be at home." 



In all Trevithick's moves there was a scramble for 

 money, in which he invariably came worst off. He 

 could give a good hint that working centres would not 

 turn well without the essential oil ; but he failed to 

 apply the principle to himself. . Liberal words and 

 golden prospects carried him off at once; and before 

 Uville was strong enough to visit the Cornish mines 

 and to fully explain what he wanted, the machinery 

 was being made, though at that same time the thrash- 

 ing and ploughing engines, and the locomotive and 

 rock-boring engine, and the great fight with Watt at 

 Dolcoath, were in progress. 



[Rough draft.] 



" MR. KASTEICK, " CAMBORNE, June 8th, 1813. 



" Sir, Enclosed I send to you a drawing for a set of 

 pumps for one of the engines for South America, with a 

 drawing for a part of the castings for one of the boilers, for you 

 to make a beginning. The drawings for the engines I will send 

 in a lew days. The Spanish gentleman who is now gone to 



