CHAP. XXV.

COLUMBIA.

24-7

Account of the gold and silver coined at themint of Popayan from 1810 to 1825 .

Years.

Dollars in gold.

Dollars in silver.

Total.

1810

886,056

886,056

1811

1812

/

1813

>no returns.

1814

C

1815

)

1816

236,909

236,909

1817

703,372

703,372

1818

779.362

779,362

1819

566,722

566,722

1820

1821

£ no returns.

1822

1823

495,848

6,795

502,643

1824

810,563

16,043

856,606

1825

742,978

16,936

759,914

8)5,291,584

Average of eight years 661,448

This account, deficient as it is, is the only docu-ment we have been able to procure of a statisticalkind, and as the least unsatisfactory way of framingany calculation, it has appeared best to assume thatthe eight years of which there are no accounts, andthe four years since 1825 , were as productive asthe average of the years for which we have re-turns. The want of accounts probably arises fromthe excess of turbulence and the continued in-ternal agitations of the several years. Perhapsthat average is higher than can be justified, but as