206 ENGINES FOE SOUTH AMERICA. 



The new engine, which he hoped they would get on 

 with, was probably the steam locomotive plough then 

 being constructed at Bridgenorth. 



[Rough draft.] 

 " GENTLEMEN, "CAMBORNE, September 22nd, 1813. 



" I have your favour of the 14th instant, and hope to 

 find you as forward on your job on our arrival at Bridgenorth 

 as you state. I expect all the boiler and smith work will be 

 shipped for London early in October; we shall then leave 

 Cornwall for your works, at which time you will be very much 

 annoyed with our company, unless we find your assertions 

 grounded on facts. Enclosed I send you Mr. Uville's draft for 

 150Z. Your receipt for the draft enclosed in my letter of the 

 16th instant has not yet arrived. 



" I hope you will also have all the apparatus ready to try the 

 new engine ; Mr. Uville is very anxious to take the first of these 

 new engines with him. When you send a receipt for the en- 

 closed, please to say what state of forwardness the whole of our 

 work is in, and do not neglect a moment to get the whole 

 executed with all possible dispatch. 



" Nothing short of a want of cast iron will confine our friend 

 in England one day after the end of this month. 



" I am, Gentlemen, 



" Your very humble servant, 



" RICHABD TREVITHICK. 

 " MESSRS. HAZELDINE, RASTRICK, AND Co." 



It seems probable that in 1813 a railway locomotive, 

 with apparatus for rock boring, and steam-crane, was 

 made for South America as the forerunner of the 6 Sans- 

 pareil' of 1829. 



[Rough draft.] 

 " GENTLEMEN, " CAMBORNE, October 1st, 1813. 



"I received your favour of the 27th last evening, and 

 now enclose you another draft of Mr. Uville's for 1507. We shall 

 wait impatiently for your next letter to know when you will 



