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Llanos, an electrical machine with large plates, 

 electrophori, batteries, and electrometers ; an 

 apparatus nearly as complete as our first scien- 

 tific men in Europe possess. All these articles 

 had not been purchased in the United States ; 

 they were the performance of a man, who had 

 never seen any instrument, who had no person 

 to consult, and who was acquainted with the 

 phenomena of electricity only by reading the 

 treatise of Sigaud de la Fond, and Franklin's 

 Memoirs. Mr. Carlos del Pozo, the name of 

 this worthy and ingenious man, had begun to 

 make cylindrical electrical machines, by em- 

 ploying large glass jars, after having cut off the 

 necks. It was only within a few years he had 

 been able to procure, by way of Philadelphia, 

 two plates, to construct a plate machine, and to 

 obtain more considerable effects. It is easy to 

 judge what difficulties Mr. Pozo had to encounter, 

 since the first works upon electricity had fallen 

 into|his hands ; and that he had the courage to 

 resolve to procure himself, by his own industry, 

 all that he had seen described in the books. 

 Till now he had enjoyed only the astonishment 

 and admiration produced by his experiments on 

 persons destitute of all information, and who had 

 never quitted the solitude of the Llanos ; our 

 abode at Calabozo gave him a satisfaction alto- 

 gether new. It may be supposed, that he set 

 some value on the opinions of two travellers, 



