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the crazy frigate ' Esineralda,' which carried his flag in Callao 

 Bay, but I never heard of the gallant conduct of your father 

 in swimming off to his ship and advising him of an intended 

 assassination. I fancy that this must have occurred before I 

 came on the station, probably in 1820, or 1821. 



" Believe me, 



" My dear 8ir, 



" Very sincerely yours, 



"JAMES LlDDELL." 



Trevitbick's floating caissons for the sunken ship of 

 Margate Bay in 1810 1 were similarly applied in 1821 

 in the Bay of Callao. In Lima lie became acquainted 

 with Lord Dundonald, whom he warned of a plot on 

 his life, discovered in his friendly intimacy at the 

 residence of President Bolivar. Those two remarkable 

 Englishmen were alike in their daring inventiveness, 

 and not unlike in face and person. 



We have traced Trevithick's steps from his landing at 

 Lima in 1817 to the destruction of the mine machinery 

 by the civil wars, and his departure from there about 

 1822. But one link in the chain has been nearly 

 lost. During some portion of those five years he 

 visited Chili, and set to work mines which are still 

 producing large and profitable quantities of copper. 

 The late Mr. Waters, an eminent Cornish mirier, who 

 for many years managed some of these mines in the 

 neighbourhood of Valparaiso, said that Trevithick's 

 name was better known to the miners there than to the 

 miners in Cornwall. This statement was made in the 

 Dolcoath account-house at a public meeting, the speaker 



1 In 1834 the writer was employed 

 at a marine engine works in London, 

 and made working drawings for a 



scheme of Lord Dundonald's, who ex- 

 pressed great pleasure in meeting the 

 son of his old friend. 



