CONTENTS. IX 



the mines. Mexico; its internal wars. The mines of 

 Guanaxuato, Zaccatecas, Sombrerete, their general de- 

 crease. Mines of Tasco. Inferiority of the coin. 

 Amount coined. Columbia, decrease of its gold washings. 

 Estimate of gold and silver coined. Peru. Its wars. 

 Wealth exported by exiles. Amount of coined money. 

 Dilapidated state of mines. Present state of those of 

 Hialgayoc, Pasco,Callioma, Huantajaya, St. Rosa, andLay- 

 acota. Estimate of the whole amount. Buenos Ay res. 

 Its wars and rapid decline of produce in all its mines. 

 High rate of interest there. Amount of dollars coined. 

 Chili. Mine at Huesco discovered in 1812. Amount 

 of gold produced. Brasil. Decrease of its gold wash- 

 ings. Future prospects. Gold from North America. 

 Estimate of the whole produce of America. Gold from 

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CHAPTER XXVI. 



On the consumption of gold and silver in the twenty years 

 between 1810 and 1819, but especially on the application 

 of them to other purposes than coin. Gold and silver 

 manufactures in England. In various towns. Sweep- 

 washers. Refiners. Quantity of gold refined. Gold- 

 beater's trade in London. In the country. Leaf-gold. 

 Gilt buttons. Toys and trinkets. Plating. Gilded 

 china. Quantity of gold thus consumed. Increased use 

 of jewellery and gilt articles in every country. London 

 jewellers. Fine gold. Estimate of quantity consumed 

 by them. Silver goods. Amount of duty paid. On 

 watches. On plated goods. Silver toys. Estimate of 

 the quantity annually consumed. French jewellers. 

 Gold and silver watches. Quantity consumed estimated 



by Chaptal. Consumption in Switzerland. Bavaria 



Austria. Turkey. Russia. Prussia. Large consump- 



