CHAP. XXV.

GUAT1MALA.

Year.

Marks of silver.

Marks of gold.

Value in dollars.

1820

41,300

351,127

1821

45,808

389,376

1822

16,214

137,821

1823

34,628

146

314,202

1824

6,475

526

126,578

First six

months of

1825

12,155

253

127,751

1,446,855

This amounts to three hundred and one thou-sand four hundred and twenty-eight poundssterling in the five years and a half. From theunsettled state of public affairs in that districtsince 1825 , it cannot be supposed much im-provement has been experienced, and it is notprobable that the four years and a half which havepassed since the termination of the above state-ment could have yielded more than at the re-corded rate, or that the whole of the ten yearsfrom 1820 to 1829 produced more than halfa million sterling.

The most melancholy picture presents itself inthis, as in every portion of Spanish South America to which our views can be directed. It is not thebusiness of this inquiry to trace the. causes of thesufferings that have been endured in the smallerportions of that country, nor even to notice themfarther than as they may have effected a diminu-tion in the products of the precious metals.

Columbia, as the ancient Spanish viceroyalty of Columbia.New Granada is now called, including what was

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