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" I think I need not say much more to you on this head, as 

 you ought to feel more for your own interest than I can 

 scribble to you on paper. 



" Yours, &c., 



"R. TREVITHICK. 



" MESSRS. HAZELDINE, RASTRICK, AND Co." 



This rough hand-sketch and letter fully describing 

 his requirements, is an illustration of the facility with 

 which Trevithick designed his engines and made known 

 his wishes to others. 



[Rough draft.] 



" GENTLEMEN, " CAMBORNE, October ( 23rd, 1813. 



" Mr. Uville wishes everything to be sent off as soon as 

 finished, except the rolling engine, which is to remain until he 

 arrives. We intend to leave Cornwall for Bridgenorth on 

 Monday, November 1st. You may expect to see us three days 

 after that date. The wheels ordered for the carriages are to 

 run on the ground and not on railroads. Mr. Uville now wishes 

 to have seventy-two instead of sixty as ordered before. 



" I remain, Gentlemen, 



" Yours, &c., 



" K. TREVITHICK. 

 " MESSRS. HAZELDINE AND Co." 



The last-named engine was intended for the coinage 

 operations in the Mint at Lima. The use of railway 

 locomotion had been under discussion with the engine 

 builders, and probably those particular carriage-wheels 

 were ordered in the hope that the portable engine built 

 for conveying itself from place to place in the sugar 

 plantations of Jamaica, would in the Cordilleras be made 

 to draw waggons on common roads. 



The hand sketch of the winding engine in the letter 



