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weights of pure gold, equal to one hundred and 

 eighty dollars ; but this appears to have been 

 much more than the average produce of a day's 

 labour 1 ." 



The whole of the amount of the gold and silver 

 supplied by the late Spanish dominions in America 

 may now be brought under one view thus : 



. . Amount in dollars 



Dlvlslons ' in twenty years. 



Mexico .- . ', . 220,043,200 



Guatimala . . . . 2,893,710 



Columbia ; . . V ':* 33,564,267 



Peru . >n . V; 64,688,429 



Buenos Ayres .-...,< . * 30,000,000 



Chili ... V . : ',. 16,618,880 



367,808,486 



Or in sterling at 4*. 2d. the dollar 76,626,768 



To this may be added the produce of Brasil 4,110,000 



Whole produce of America ...- 80,736,768 



In Europe the produce of gold and silver has de- 

 clined, when the average of the last twenty years 

 is compared with that of the one hundred and ten 

 years which preceded it. This is the case with 

 the Austrian dominions. Up to the year 1773, 

 Hungary and Siebenbiirgen yielded the amount 

 of five million florins in gold and silver. After 

 that year it declined to half that sum, and in the 



1 Quarterly Mining Review, No. 5, p. 96. 



