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" Captain Trevithick, knowing but little of the country, and 

 disgusted with the treatment he received from Uville and the 

 party he had formed against him, amongst whom was a gent 

 who had lately arrived from England, retired from the concern, 

 and proceeded on other important discoveries on his own 

 account. 



"Things remained in this state until August, 1818, when 

 Uville met his death, in consequence of the cold penetrating 

 air of the Cordilleras on coming out of the mines in a strong 

 perspiration. Mr. Abadia and his friends were then under the 

 necessity of soliciting the assistance of Captain Trevithick. On 

 condition of his having the sole direction of the mines, he was 

 prevailed upon to accept the situation which had been first 

 most faithfully agreed he should have had; and when the 

 accounts last left Lima in February, Captain Trevithick had been 

 five months at the mines as the chief superintendent. The 

 mines are represented as being in the most prosperous state, 

 and likely to realize the sanguine expectations of the share- 

 holders. Mr. Bull, an engineer from Chacewater, who left 

 England with Uville, died at Pasco about ten months since." 



When this was written, Trevithick had been two 

 years in the country, and found the immense difficulties 

 of the undertaking increased by jealousies and jobberies. 

 Mr. Uville was no more, neither were Vivian or Bull ; 

 but one man remained alive out of the four wbo had 

 sailed from England with tbe first cargo of machinery. 

 In August, 1818, Mr. Abadia, who from the first was 

 a leading authority, requested Trevithick to take upon 

 himself the sole management of the mines, where he 

 continued until April, 1819, as shown by the following 

 extract from Captain Hodge's journal, supplied by my 

 friend Mr. Charles Hodge : 



" The first time they met was at Lima, on the 26th April, 

 1819, at Dr. Thome's ; your father had just come down from 

 the Cerro de Pasco mines. On the 8th May following, I find 



