218 KXGINES FOR SOl'TII AMKIMCA. 



various workers of mines in Yauricocha, Yanacancha, 

 Caya Chica, Santa Eosa, and in the mining ridge of 

 Colquijilca, for a period of nine years, to commence 

 within eighteen months of that time, to sink a general 

 pit for the drainage of those mines, and to pump out 

 the water by steam-engines. The payment for this 

 drainage was to be one-twentieth part of the ore raised 

 by the different mines. 



" An agreement made at London this 8th day of January, 

 1814, between Don Francisco Uville, of Lima, in the Vice- 

 royalty of Peru, of the one part, and Richard Trevithick, of 

 Camborne, in Cornwall, engineer, of the other part. Whereas, 

 by an agreement of partnership made and signed at Lima, and 

 whereas the said Francisco Uville did in pursuance of his con- 

 tract with the said miners soon after the ratification thereof, 

 embark for England, for the purpose of fulfilling the same on 

 his part, and on his arrival there in the month of April last, 

 made application to the said Richard Trevithick, who is an 

 experienced engineer and miner, and requested him to assist 

 him in promoting the object of his journey, which the said 

 Richard Trevithick (being penetrated with a high sense of its 

 utility) agreed to do, and hath accordingly applied himself 

 wholly to that object, ever since the arrival of the said Fran- 

 cisco Uville in England : And whereas under the direction of 

 the said Richard Trevithick, and by the orders of the said 

 Francisco Uville, various machines and engines have been made 

 for the purposes of the said concern, a part of which has been 

 already paid for by the said Francisco Uville ; but several of 

 the bills brought by him to England not having been honoured, 

 by reason of the absence from England of the parties upon 

 whom they were drawn, the said Francisco Uville hath not at 

 present sufficient funds to answer the engagements .he has 

 entered into in this country, and Don Juan . . . . , to whom 

 he was in that case directed by his partners to offer shares in 

 the said concern, and from whom he could have received 

 supplies, not being at this time in London, the said Francisco 

 Uville has agreed to admit the said Richard Trevithick to be 



