Life of Richard Trevithick With An Account of His Inventions volume 2
Life of Richard Trevithick With An Account of His Inventions volume 2
Francis Trevithick
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In this state it remained for a considerable time ; but on the Spaniards retreating into the interior, I recommenced working ; and to secure my right to this mine under the new 7 Government I at the same time transmitted a memorial and petition to the established authorities, accompanied by a plan and description of the mine, the result of which was the formal grant, as ex- hibited in the Spanish document now in your possession. It was not my good fortune to be allowed to follow up my plans, wh...ich almost warranted a certainty of success. I had scarcely commenced a second time when the Spaniards returned, and everyone again was obliged to fly. The country, as is well known, continued for a long time in a most distracted state, and I was ultimately compelled to quit that part of Peru, robbed of all my money, leaving everything behind me, miners' tools and about 5000Z. Worth of ores on the spot ready to be carried to the shipping port. Numerous as my misfortunes had been in Peru, and heavy as my disappointments, I felt none so sensibly as this, because it was an enterprise entirely of my own creation, and so open to view that I was enabled to calculate at a certainty the immense value contained within the external circle where the copper vein made its appearance in the cap of the mountain, and to be obtained without risk or capital.
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