[BOOK IV. Brought over In 1548 the mines of Zacatecas began to be worked, and the mines of Guanaxuato in 1558; and nearly at the same period amalmagation was invented by Medina. We may reckon from 1548 till 1600 at least two millions, and from 1600 till 1690 three millions per an num · The mines of Potosi, supplied from their discovery in 1545 till the year 1803, 1095 millions of piastres, or 128,882,000 marcs; namely, from 1545 to 1556, nearly From 1559 to 1789, according to the registers of the treasury already given Add, on account of the value of the peso de minas, from 1556 to 1600 Produce of Potosi, from 1789 to 1808 Piastres. 1,398,952,000 $74,000,000 127,500,000 788,258,500 134,000,000 46,000,000 Carried over 2,863,710,500 Brought over The mines of Pasco or Yauricocha, discovered in 1630, yielded up to 1803 nearly 300 millions of piastres, or 35,300,000 marcs; namely, from 1630 to 1792, at 200,000 marcs per annum From 1792 to 1801, according to the registers Produce of the Cerro de Yau ricocha, from 1801 till 1803 The mines of Gualgayoc, discovered in 1771, yielded up to 1773 nearly 170,000 marcs of silver per annum From 1774 till 1802, for the mines of Gualgayoc, Guamachuco and Couchucos I estimate the produce of the mines of Huantajaya, Porco, and other less considerable Peruvian mines, from the 16th century till 1803, at 150,000 or 200,000 marcs of silver per Piastres. 2,863,710,500 274,400,000 21,501,600 3,400,000 4,300,000 185,339,900 504,000 annum 350,000,000 Carried over 3,703,156,000 Piastres. Brought over 3,703,156,000 Choco was peopled in 1539; the province of Antioquia, then inhabited by cannibals, was conquered in 1541. The alluvial mining tracts of Sonora and Chili began only very late to be worked. If we reckon 12,000 marcs of gold for the total produce of the Spanish Colonies, not including the kingdom of New Spain, we may add Registered Gold and Silver of 332,000,000 the Spanish Colonies, from 4,035,156,000 1492 to 1803 B. PORTUGUESE COLONIES. Raynal supposes, for the first sixty years, a produce the double of the present. He admits, that according to the registers of the fleets, since the discovery of the mines of Brazil till 1555, there has come into Europe, in gold, the value of 480,000,000 Carried over 480,000,000 II. Gold and Silver not registered, extracted from the mines of the New Continent, from 1492 to 1803. A. SPANISH COLONIES. I reckon for New Spain, where Pasco, Gualgayoc, and the rest of Peru, where the silver is carried off on the Amazon river towards Brazil 260,000,000 274,000,000 200,000,000 Carried over 734,000,000 VOL. III. E E |