250 MINES IN 



CHAP. XXV. 



Within the period we are considering no sta- 

 tistical returns have been procured except of the 

 silver for the first eleven years, which are as 

 follows : 



Year. Dollars. 



1810 4,433,581 



1811 3,963,566 



1812 3,659,282 



1813 3,409,594 



1814 2,776,760 



1815 2,494,422 



1816 2,924,627 



1817 2,653,042 



1818 2,755,592 



1819 2,942,244 



1820 3,573,907 



35,586,617 



The only authentic information respecting the 

 state of the mines comes down no lower than the 

 year 1826. At that time high expectations were 

 indulged of a great extension of mining operations 

 which was to arise from the application of English 

 capital. The account of the calamitous crisis with 

 which England was visited at the end of the year 

 1825 had not reached Peru when the descriptions 

 of the state of the mines here referred to were col- 

 lected, and they must be considered as dictated 

 in some measure by the high state of excitement 

 which was then in action in Peru. 



" Owing to the revolution which broke out at 

 Lima in 1820, no documents or even intelligence 



