S80 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON 



sioner who has charge of the Association. — The 

 character, constitution, habits, and expensive wants 

 of the English and European workmen, ill adapted 

 to the country. — The experience they have gained 

 in Cornish copper mines inapplicable to the extrac- 

 tion of silver ores in South America. (See Memo- 

 randum A.) Europeans, overcome by the climate, 

 become indolent from possessing large independent 

 salaries in a country where wine and spirits are 

 cheap — women of the country — their char^icters. — 

 Impossibility of the distant mines being frequently 

 inspected, consequently the necessity of placing 

 confidence, and of trusting gold and silver to indi- 

 viduals, many of whom in England would not be 

 deemed persons of sufficient education for so diffi- 

 cult a situation. Probability that many would en- 

 deavour to perform their duty, but the certainty 

 that one leak, whether from inattention or other- 

 wise, would affect the interests of the whole. 



POLITICAL. 



Important reasons why mines in South America, 

 "which formerly were worked with profit, would now 



