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PRODUCT OF PERU .

CHAP. XXV.

Buenos

Ayres.

tion that the whole of the mines may producemore than one million five hundred thousand dol-lars, which shall be taken as two million.

The whole production of silver in Peru thenmay be brought into one view as follows:

Dollars .

In the eleven years from 1810 to 1820, bothyears included . . . 35,586,617

In the five years, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824,and 1825, the same amount as in the fivepreceding years, which appears to be . 14,849,412

In the four years, 1826, 1827, 1828, and1829, at the annual rate of £2,000,000 8,000,000

Amount of silver in twenty years . 58,436,029

During the period in question we have noreturns of the gold from Peru , except forsix years from 1800 to 1805, in which theproduce was 1,875,723 dollars, or an an-nual amount of 312,620 dollars. Thestate of the hostilities must have diminishedthe produce in the fourteen subsequentyears; but we may estimate the wholetwenty years at that rate, being . 6,252,400

Produce of gold and silverOr in sterlingOr annually

64,688,429£13,476,751£ 673,837

The Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres or La Plata,which, as has been before stated, comprehended inits western limits the district since erected intowhat has been called the republic of Bolivia , seemsto have suffered more in its mining operations than