POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE 422740 KINGDOM OF NEW SPAIN. CONTAINING Researches relative to the Geography of Mexico, The Population, the State of Agriculture and Manufacturing The Canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, The Quantity of the precious Metals which have flowed from Mexico New Continent, And the Military Defence of New Spain. BY ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT. WITH PHYSICAL SECTIONS AND MAPS, FOUNDED ON ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS, AND TRIGONOMETRICAL LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Conclusion of Humboldt's Political Essay on New Spain is now laid before the Public. The Translator in these concluding volumes has continued to convert the weights, measures, and coins of the Ooriginal, into those used in gland, with all the accuracy in his power; but he has cautiously and perhaps prudently abstained from taking notice of any seeming oversight or inconsistency of M. de Humboldt, occurring to him in the course of translation. It is hardly possible for a Translator of the most obtuse intellect not occasionally to perceive a vulnerable point in his original; and what the present Translator perceives, or imagines he perceives, he is at no time From 1809 to 1832, Prussia has drawn from its mines in Thuringia, Silesia, and in the Rhenish Provinces, 296,800 marks of silver. This is only the oneand-twentieth part of the mass of money which the State has coined. |