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gold and ilLVER MINES, 
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'’Hj jjn-^ *rom the prices which the most princely for- 
y'^Ut o°**^ diamond in question 
Still ^itindred and thirty-five thousand pounds 
OShey one called the pitt or regent, altliough 
Qj. f'® hundred and thirty-six carats only, was, on 
'ii^l f^’ ^ greater brilliancy, purchased of a Greek 
°no hundred thousand pounds sterling. Se- 
diamonds are preserved in the cabinets of 
and Princes of Europe. 
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AND SILVER MINES. 
'iiiid Plata, so denominated on account 
contains, are chiefly situated 
'h/v^fore '^'^hicli were strictly considered as Peru- 
P-''‘'lhion of territory in 177-8; Char- 
den.^ “>td even Buenos Ayres, being then con- 
’’lij'P'liti v'^'^encies of Peru. With the e.xceptiou of 
'■’Ppc*' P^n't of the Viceroyalty of La Plata 
hi silver which has yet been digeover- 
Sold, jnnumorable mines both of that metal 
I ‘Ci^ > aiir! I northern provinces teem with mineral 
'tip.hy of Laricaja and Carabaya are distin- 
' its 1 •' P’-oduction of the latter, and still noblei 
state. 
i.!‘''sj.i''*5iid r Potoai alone produces weekly about 
1 ''ed'^,'<ohar?'^^ silver, that is, from thirty to forty 
, h I *tim ■’"a surprising ■ produce, when it is con- 
V '''*'*8 an wrought .since ] 545, at which 
discovered by an Indian. At the 
/*• "'as still more abundant, and the metal 
i.t^t, . '^aiia . Pwi'er state : but it is still considered as the 
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mine. The silver is often found 
ein' earth. Six thousand Indians are 
months, from the provinces of the 
‘Id ti.^^^'^ork this mine. The expedition is called 
Indians, having been enrolled and formed 
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‘..‘lilies''*' 
1^.,* ti nV(s 1. Ai.lVliJ,” UCULl G'UIUUCU 
h"; '''bibuted by the governor of Potosi, and 
k'l^ n .l''y stipend, (equal to about eighteen 
'h'''’’ I period of their labour is completed. 
“8 tlia.'°°‘^Patniied to a forced service,, wliich is 
^ iiUdy,* ® ^"ciy, so long as it Lasts, and which the 
‘ '’cur to justify by the plea that Labourer* 
