PRODUCT OF PERU. 



CHAP. XXV. 



tion that the whole of the mines may produce 

 more than one million five hundred thousand dol- 

 lars, which shall be taken as two million. 



The whole production of silver in Peru then 

 may be brought into one view as follows : 



In the eleven years from 1810 to 1820, both 



years included 

 In the five years, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 



and 1825, the same amount as in the five 



preceding years, which appears to be 

 In the four years, 1826, 1827, 1828, and 



1829, at the annual rate of 2,000,000 



Amount of silver in twenty years 



Di&ing the period in question we have no 

 returns of the gold from Peru, except for 

 six years from 1800 to 1805, in which the 

 produce was 1,875,723 dollars, or an an- 

 nual amount of 312,620 dollars. The 

 state of the hostilities must have diminished 

 the produce in the fourteen subsequent 

 years; but we may estimate the whole 

 twenty years at that rate, being 



Produce of gold and silver 



Or in sterling 



Or annually .... 



Dollars. 

 35,586,617 



14,849,412 



8,000,000 



58,436,029 



6,252,400 



64,688,429 

 13,476,751 

 673,837 



Buenos 

 Ayres. 



The Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres or La Plata, 

 which, as has been before stated, comprehended in 

 its western limits the district since erected into 

 what has been called the republic of Bolivia, seems 

 to have suffered more in its mining operations than 



