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MINES IN

CHAP. XXV.

Year.

Dollars in gold.

1816

761,220 7

1817

1,034,102 S

1818

837,494 7

1819

785,342 i

1820

1,247,459 >

1821

1,293,432 S

1822

1,037,007 l

1823

759,366 5

1824

576,496 l

1825

573,649 5

Dollars in silver. Total.

Brought forward 6,377,503

40,800 1,836,122

37,400 1,660,236

64,025 2,604,916

41,012 1,877,385

not given, 2 ,050,880

average assumed

Dollars 16,407,042

Supposing 1826, 27, 28, and 29 to havebeen equal to 1822, 23, 24, and 25,it would he . . . ,. 3,928,265

20)20,335,307

Average of the years . . • 1,016,760

Or in sterling, annually . . <£211,708

The gold and silver which are yielded in thesouthern part of Columbia, including that whichwas formerly a part of Peru and then called thekingdom of Quito , but now a department of Co-lumbia, are coined at the mint of Popayan . Thereturns from thence are as follows: