CHAP. XXII. AMOUNT OF GOLD AND SILVER. 165 







Peru ; . . . 100,169,524 Sterling 



Columbia . . . 57,341,666 



Chili ;' . . 19,532,166 



Buenos Ayres . . 96,250,000 



Produce paying duty . 273,293,356 



Produce on contraband . 68,323,339 



341,616,695 

 Produce of Mexico as before stated 364,847,739 



706,464,434 



To this estimation of the produce of the gold 

 and silver from Spanish America must be now 

 added the gold furnished by the Portuguese ter- 

 ritories in Brazil. Humboldt estimates their 

 annual produce in the year 1800 at four million 

 three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. His 

 calculations do not, from any thing that appears, 

 seem to have been drawn from any statistical 

 accounts, and can be no safe guide. For the first 

 half of the century no notices but those of too 

 loose a nature to deserve confidence have been 

 attainable. In the appendix to the report of the 

 bullion committee of the House of Commons in 

 June 1810, there is an account of the produce of 

 the quintos, or duty of one-fifth from the 1st of 

 August 1751, to 31st of December 1794, for the 

 two greatest mining provinces of Brazil, those of 

 Minas Geraes, and of Minas Novas ; and also of 

 the district of Goiazes. There were other mines 

 in Brazil, in Cuiaba, Jacobina, and Matagroso, 



