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APPENDIX. 



No. 9. 



Lavras in Minas Geras. 



An account showing the number of lavras (washings), 

 miners, and labourers in the province of Minas Geras ; and 

 also the product of gold in that province on the average of 

 the two years 1812 and 1813. 



The value of the millrees, which was formerly between six 

 and seven shillings, has gradually declined since the intro- 

 duction of a paper currency in Brazil, till at present it can 

 only be estimated at about two-thirds; but as the effect of 

 the paper system had only begun to show itself in 1813, the 

 millrees may be valued then at five shillings. 



