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APPENmX. 
I 
I 
I 
% 
I 
' Exports. 
Silver . 
£ 
. 720,000 
E.xporls. 
\’icuua and alpaca 
w nol 
L' 
00,000 
Peruvian hark 
. ICO. 0(10 
Tin . 
40.000 
Copper 
Coca . 
. 128,000 
Coffee . 
. 
0,000 
. 128,000 
Tallow and hides 
. 
2.000 
Gold . 
80.000 
£1.324,000 
From tills it ivill lie sueu that tho imports have been considerably Ucpiidated by the 
produce of the mines.* With improved ways of communication, a country, whose 
pojjulation is increasing so rapidlyf without any .immigration from without, arid 
which owns provinces of siu'prising fertility, may well cover the imports indeiioudently 
of the mines. . 
Several attemjjts. or rather projects, have been made to force tho bamors, and to 
ojieu the country to eoinmereo. Thus, the railroad wliich runs from Buenos Ajtcs 
towards the north (extended to Cordova now) wiU, by its contemplated prolongation to 
Jujui, connect the Southern part of Bolivia with that impoidant harboiu- at tlie mouth 
of the Eiver Plato ; and another project has heen mooted of opening a way by the 
PUcomayo (navigable though it he only during the rainy season) to Asuncion in 
Paraguay, where tho magnificent river of that name will offer the best of all media of 
communication. _ . 
A third project, the execution of which has heen begun in right good earnest in tho 
face of immense difficulties, is the railroad from tho Peruvian port of Islay, by nay of 
Arequipa, to Puno on the Titicaca Lake. It may ultimately become a rival to the 
Madeira Railroad; yet, as they wiU touch Bolivia at nearly diametrically oppiosito 
points, and as moreover the construction of a railroad over tho wild, rugged moimtoiix 
range, j: with tunnels, viaducts, and galleries, will involve the labour of scores of years 
in these countries — during which time the Madeira line will be at work and gathering 
its harvest, though difficulties will not be spai'od to it either — the latter may well be 
recommended to the respective Governments and to the commercial world in general, 
especially since the agricultural produce of the fertile jilains on tlio Madeira and its 
affluents will always go by the Amazon. 
Thus before the powerful influence of steam will one harrier after another fall ; and 
ere the lapse of another century iron rails will penetrate to the remotest corner of tho 
new continent, now inhabited by wild tribes whose names even are unlcnowu to us ; 
from the forest-covered Amazon Basin down to tho grassy ^ilains of tho Gran Chaco, to 
tlie retreat of the grim Pampas Indians, and to stony Patagonia ; and the mixed 
population, which will have sprung up meanwhile, wiU be united to the rest of the 
world by the strong ties of interest and of commerce. But tho red-skiuned native of 
pure blood will have become a myth ; the world will be the poorer for many an idyll ; 
hut, on the whole, mankind will have achieved a vast stride in tho career of Progress. 
* In the last eighteen nionlhs, the produce of the silver mines of Potosi and Carac61es has increased 
so largely that in 1872 it amounted to £1,350,000. _ . . 
t The "population of Bolivia amounted, in the first year after the Dechmition of Indei>endcnoe, tliat is m 
1826 , .... to 997,127 
It has since progressed thus — 1831 
1836 
1841 
1846 
1861 
18.59 
1870 
1,087,792 
1,181,169 
1,277,531 
1,373,896 
1,448,196 
1.950.000 
2.750.000 
I The pass of Tacora, hetween Aroquipa and Puao, is 15,000 feet above the level of the sea. 
PlilKTED BY VIUTUK AND CO., CiYY ROAD, LOSDO.V. 
