CHAP. XXV. 



COLUMBIA. 



247 



Account of the gold and silver coined at the 

 mint of Popayan from 1810 to 1825. 



Years. 



1810 

 1811 

 1812 

 1813 

 1814 

 1815 

 1816 

 1817 

 1818 

 1819 

 1820 

 1821 

 1822 

 1823 

 1824 

 1825 



Dollars in gold. 



886,056 



no returns. 



236,909 

 703,372 

 779,362 

 566,722 



no returns. 



495,848 

 840,563 

 742,978 



Dollars in silver. 



Total. 



886,056 



6,795 

 16,043 

 16,936 



236,909 

 703,372 

 779,362 

 566,722 



502,643 

 856,606 

 759,914 



8)5,291,584 



Average of eight years 661,448 



This account, deficient as it is, is the only docu- 

 ment we have been able to procure of a statistical 

 kind, and as the least unsatisfactory way of framing 

 any calculation, it has appeared best to assume that 

 the eight years of which there are no accounts, and 

 the four years since 1825, were as productive as 

 the average of the years for which we have re- 

 turns. The want of accounts probably arises from 

 the excess of turbulence and the continued in- 

 ternal agitations of the several years. Perhaps 

 that average is higher than can be justified, but as 



