1. Quantity of Registered Gold and Silver extracted from the mines of America, from the year 1492 to 1803.

A. SPANISH COLONIES.

The kingdom of New Spain has

furnished the mint of Mexico, between 1690 and 1803, according to the register already given, with The mines of Tasco, Zultepec,

Pachuca, and Tlapujahua, were almost the only ones which were worked immediately after the destruction of the city of Tenochtitlan in 1521, and from that memorable period till 1548. As the quantity of gold and silver coined in the beginning of the 18th century, did not exceed five millions of piastres per annum, I reckon from the conquest by Herman Cortez, till 1548, for the total produce of Mexico

Piastres.

1,853,452,000

40,500,000

Brought over

In 148 the mines of Zacatecas began to be worked, and the mines of Guanaxuato in 1558; and nearly at the same period amalgamation 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
mares; 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

1803

Piastres. 1,393,952,000

374,000,000

127,500,000

788,258,500

134,000,000

Brought over

Piastres.

2,863,710,500

The mines of Pasco or Yauri

cocha, 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 Yauricocha, from 1801 till 1803 The mines of Gualgayoc, discovered in 1771, yielded from 1773, nearly 170,000 marcs of of silver, per annum

From 1774 till 1802, for the mines of Gualgayoc, Guamachuco de 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

annum

274,400,000

21,501,600

3,400,000

4,300,000

185,339,900

504,000

350,000,000

Carried over 3,703,156,000

Brought over

Choco was peopled in 1539; the province of Antioquia, then inhabited by cannibals, was conquered in 1541. The al-luvious mines 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

Piastres. 3,703,156,000

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.

À.

SPANISH COLONIES.

I reckon for New Spain, where
the furtive extraction was very
considerable till the middle
of the eighteenth century, á
seventh

For Potosi, the fourth of the
total produce, on account of
the enormous contraband at
the beginning of working the
mines
Pasco, Gualgayoc, and the rest
of Peru, where the silver flows
by the river Amazons, towards
Brazil'

Carried over

260,000,000

274,000,000

4

200,000,000

734,000,300