"I wish to have made apparatus to work expansively, and also a temporary water-pump, to load the engine, so as to prove its duty by the consumption of coal.
"If the jobs are not completed by our arrival, you need not expect any rest until its completion. Your answer will oblige,
"R. T."
"Messrs. Hazeldine, Rastrick, and Co."
The money difficulty was for a time surmounted, with a prospect of the completion and shipment of the work for London within four months of the giving of the order; and the Spanish Government proposed that a line-of-battle ship should take the engines to Lima from Cadiz. An order was given for another pumping engine and another winding engine, to be provided with gear for working expansively, and a temporary water-pump, that in case of need the amount of work the engines could do with a given amount of coal might be tested. A crushing machine, now called "quartz-crusher," also formed part of this additional order.
The new engine, which he hoped they would get on with, was probably the steam locomotive plough then being constructed at Bridgenorth.
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"Camborne, September 22nd, 1813.
"Gentlemen,