Place of MS. Date of MS. 



1 Spain 



3 Mexico ( ?) 



5 Mexico 



7 Manila 



9 Mexico 



11 Chietla (Mexico) 



abt. 1500 



13 



15 



17 



Mexico 



New Orleans 



Mexico City 



19 On the Mississippi 



21 



Philadelphia 



23 " Nouvelle Madrid 

 (N. O.) 



25 " Nouvelle Madrid 

 (N. O.) 



27 New Orleans 



29 New Orleans 



Date of MS. Pluce of MS. 



1508 Mexico City 2 



1633 San Felipe de puerto 4 



1049 



1G9G 



1740 



1760 



1709 



Mexico City 



Mexico 



Mexico City 



Manila 



10 



12 



14 



1792 



1794 



1794 



(1778)1783 New Orleans 16 



1786 New Orleans 18 



1787 Mexico City 20 



1793 " Nouvelle Madrid " 22 



(N. O.) 



1794 " Nouvelle Madrid " 24 



(N. O.) 



1794 " Nouvelle Madrid " 26 

 (N. O.) 



1796 Philadelphia (?) 28 



1799 



Louisville (?) 



30 



Fig. 3. Symbols foe the Spanish Dollar or Peso, traced from MS. letters, 

 contracts and account-books. No. 1. The historian, Dr. Cayetano Coll y Toste, of 

 Porto Rico, says that this was the written symbol " during the time of Christopher 

 Columbus." Nos. 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20 are traced from MSS. owned by 

 W. W. Blake, Avenida 16 de Septiembre 13, Mexico City. Nos. 15, 16, 18, 19 are from 

 Draper Coll. in Wis. Hist. Libr., Madison; Nos. 15, 16 in Clark MSS., Vol. 48 J, pp. 37, 

 38 ; Nos. 18, 19 in Clark MSS., Vol. 1, pp. 136, 143. Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 12 are from the 

 Ayer Coll. Newberry Libr., Chicago. No. 21 from letter of Robt. Morris to the 

 Hon. Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esq., Hartford, Conn., in Harper Mem. Libr., University 

 of Chicago. Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 are from MSS. in Chicago Hist. 

 Soc. Libr. ; No. 22 in Menard Coll., Vol. 64 ; Nos. 23, 24 in Menard Coll., Vol. 60, 

 p. 187 ; Nos. 25, 30 in Autogr. Letters, Vol. 61 ; No. 26 in Menard Coll., Vol. 62 ; 

 Nos. 27, 29 in Menard Coll., Vol. 63 ; No. 28 Autogr. Letters, Vol. 71, p. 76. 



