CHAP. XXV. 



GUAT1MALA. 



241 



1,446,855 



This amounts to three hundred and one thou- 

 sand four hundred and twenty-eight pounds 

 sterling in the five years and a half. From the 

 unsettled state of public affairs in that district 

 since 1825, it cannot be supposed much im- 

 provement has been experienced, and it is not 

 probable that the four years and a half which have 

 passed since the termination of the above state- 

 ment could have yielded more than at the re- 

 corded rate, or that the whole of the ten years 

 from 1820 to 1829 produced more than half 

 a million sterling. 



The most melancholy picture presents itself in 

 this, as in every portion of Spanish South America 

 to which our views can be directed. It is not the 

 business of this inquiry to trace the causes of the 

 sufferings that have been endured in the smaller 

 portions of that country, nor even to notice them 

 farther than as they may have effected a diminu- 

 tion in the products of the precious metals. 



Columbia, as the ancient Spanish viceroyalty of Columbia. 

 New Granada is now called, including what was 



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