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Lima, dated the 10th of August and 25th of September, 

 1816:- 



" PROGRESS OF THE STEAM-ENGINE, &o, 

 " His Excellency the Viceroy of Peru to the Editor. 



" In order to satisfy the eager expectations of the inhabitants 

 of this Viceroyalty, those of the greater part of these Americas, 

 and even of the Peninsula itself, I hereby order the printing, at 

 full length, in the next Government Gazette, or at same time 

 in a separate sheet, the enclosed despatch from the Intendant 

 Governor of Tarma, giving the details of the admirable results 

 of the steam-engine fixed in the mineral territory of Pasco, for 

 the most important purpose of draining its mines, and for the 

 extraction of its rich ores. This authentic communication must 

 produce the most lively and grateful sensations in those true 

 Spaniards, who with grief contemplated as irreparably lost the 

 only spring from which flowed the prosperity of this continent, 

 excite their just acknowledgments to the meritorious co-ope- 

 rators in such an expensive and difficult as well as eminently- 

 advantageous enterprise, and encourage to similar undertakings 

 in other parts those who, with personal aptitudes and patriotic 

 sentiments, have been waiting the final success of the first. 



"JOAQUIN DE LA PEZUELA. 



" LIMA, 4th August, 1816." 



" Certificate of the Deputation. 



" We, Don Domingo Gonzales de Castaneda and Don Jose Lago 

 y Lemus, Commissaries and Territorial Magistrates in this 

 Eoyal Mineral Territory, and deputed by the United Cor- 

 poration of Miners in this district, do hereby certify 

 judicially, and as the law directs, in manner following : 

 " Though this deputation never doubted the extraordinary 

 power of steam compressed, and consequently the certain opera- 

 tion of engines worked by its influence, it nevertheless enter- 

 tained some fears respecting the perfect organization of all 

 the mechanical powers of the machines. This uncertainty, 



