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weights of pure gold, equal to one hundred andeighty dollars; but this appears to have beenmuch more than the average produce of a day’slabour 1 .”

The whole of the amount of the gold and silversupplied by the late Spanish dominions in America may now be brought under one view thus:

Divisions.

Amount in dollars

in twenty years.

Mexico

220,043,200

Guatimala

2,893,710

Columbia

33,564,267

Peru

64,688,429

Buenos Ayres

30,000,000

Chili

16,618,880

367,808,486

Or in sterling at 4 s. 2d. the dollar

£76,626,768

To this may be added the produce of Brasil 4,110,000

Whole produce of America

£80,736,768

In Europe the produce of gold and silver has de-clined, when the average of the last twenty yearsis compared with that of the one hundred and tenyears which preceded it. This is the case withthe Austrian dominions. Up to the year 1773,Hungary and Siebenburgen yielded the amountof five million florins in gold and silver. Afterthat year it declined to half that sum, and in the

1 Quarterly Mining Review, No. 5, p. 96.