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had in hearing of my arrival, and at the same time he wrote to 

 Mr. Abadia that he thought Heaven had sent me to them for 

 the good of the mines. The water in the mines is from four to 

 five strokes per minute. 



" Tell the members of the Geological Society that Mr. Abadia 

 is making out a very good collection of specimens for them, 

 which will be sent by the first opportunity; and soon after I 

 arrive at Pasco I will write them very fully." 



After Tre\ 7 ithick's death, in 1833, casts were taken 

 from the head, and busts presented to scientific societies 

 were thankfully received, with the single exception of 

 his near neighbours at Penzance, who, under the name 

 of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, refused it. 



Mr. W. J. Henwood, who had frequently drawn the 

 attention of Cornishmen to Trevithick's engines, being 

 about 1870 President of the Eoyal Institution of Corn- 

 wall, presented to it a bust of Trevithick, which was 

 admitted within its walls. 



In 1819 Mr. R. Edmonds forwarded to the 'Corn- 

 wall Gazette * news from Lima, from which the follow- 

 ing is extracted : 



"We have much pleasure in stating that accounts have 

 lately reached England from Lima, giving the satisfactory 

 intelligence that our countryman and able engineer, Captain 

 Trevithick, was in February last in good health, and super- 

 intending the rich and extensive mines of Pasco. 



"Don Francisco Uville, a Spanish gentleman, having, with 

 Don Pedro Abadia and others, formed a company to drain the 

 mines of Pasco, unfortunately for Captain Trevithick, F. Uville 

 was anxious to impress his countrymen with an opinion that it 

 was solely owing to him that steam-engines were first introduced 

 into the silver mines of South America ; and notwithstanding the 

 obligations he was under to Captain Trevithick, he sought every 

 opportunity, soon after Captain Trevithick's arrival at Pasco, to 

 oppose him, in claiming to have the direction of the mines. 



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