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APPENDIX. 
MONEY IN GUATEMALA. 
Persons interested in silver coinage might have a good field 
for collection here; and one of the Government collectors, who 
had a fancy for numismatics, showed me a curious lot he had 
received in payment of taxes. Maximilian coins from Mexico 
were the rarest; but every country of Central and South Amer¬ 
ica was well represented. Among current coins the dollar of 
Peru and Chili (sols') are most common; and the smaller change 
is mainly in Guatemalan and Hondurehan currency. The dollar 
( peso , piece of eight) contains eight reals, and the real two 
medios, or four cuartillos. This last is the smallest coin used, 
although the cent ( centavo ) has been coined. A real is twelve 
and a half cents, a medio six and a quarter, and a cuartillo 
three and an eighth; but in the text I have spoken of these coins 
as valued in gold, or, approximately, ten, five, and three cents. 
CERTAIN HEIGHTS DETERMINED BY THE FRENCH 
EXPEDITION. 
Tactic.4,725 
Coban ........ 4,356 
San Cristobal .4,643 
San Miguel Uspantan . . . 6,040 
Cunen.5,942 
Sacapulas.3,826 
Santa Cruz del Quiche . . . 6,621 
Quezaltenango.7,697 
Totonicapan.8,150 
Solola.7,041 
Guatemala City.5,013 
Antigua ........ 5,072 
Ciudad Tieja.5,151 
Escuintla.1,450 
Amatitlan.3,901 
Palin ..3,753 
Cuajinicuilapa.2,848 
Cerro Redondo.3,542 
Los Esclavos.2,394 
Agua Blanca.2,658 
Suchitan.4,108 
Santa Catarina (Rio) . . . 2,251 
Santa Catarina (Pueblo) . . 2,324 
Esquipulas ..2,986 
Paso del Rodeo ..... 2,744 
Los Horcones.3,637 
Piedra de Amolar .... 2,340 
Copan.1,330 
Yado Hondo ...... 1,237 
Chiquimula.1,244 
Zacapa. 449 
Pacaya.8,366 
Yolcan de Agua (summit) . 12,313 
“ “ “ (S. Maria) . 6,828 
“ u u (crater bot.) 12,087 
Yolcan de Fuego .... 13,127 
“ “ (LaMeseta) 12,001 
Acatenango ....•• 13,616 
Yolcan de Atitlan . . . • 11,723 
Cerro Quemado.10,201 
Santa Maria ...... 11,483 
Lago de Atitlan .... 5,112 
Lago de Amatitlan . . . 3,895 
Lago de San Cristobal. . . 4,643 
