1. Quantity of Registered Gold and Silver extracted from the mines of America between the years of 1492 and 1803. A. SPANISH COLONIES. Piastres. - 1,353,452,000 The kingdom of New Spain has Carried over 40,500,000 1,393,952,000 Piastres. Brought over 2,863,710,500 The mines of Pasco or Yauri- to the registers Produce of the Cerro de Yauricocha, 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 Add for 1808 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 274,400,000 21,501,600 3,400,000 4,300,000 185,339,900 504,000 annum 350,000,000 Carried over 3,703,156,000 416 POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE [BOOK IV. 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 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 260,000,000 274,000,000 200,000,000 Carried over 734,000,000 VOL. III. E E |