368 MEXICO. from which, however, must be deducted 1,636,040 dollars, being the value of 396 Tejos de oro (Ingots of gold), and 4263 Ounces, (Doubloons) remitted upon the account of the first Loan by the House of Goldschmidt, and included in the Coinage of the Capital for the year 1825 ; and 300,000 dol- lars likewise received in gold, about the same time, by the United Mexican Company, The remainder (153,276,972 dollars,) will give 10,218,464 dollars 6 reals, as the annual average produce of the fifteen years. Yet, small as this sum is, in comparison with the Average of the registered Coinage before the Revolution, (22,807,619 dollars) it is impossible now to ascertain the Mines, or Dis- tricts, from which it proceeded. Without regular returns, it is difficult to show to what extent the effects of the Revolution were felt in each ; but, in those Districts where records were kept, (extracts from most of which I have been enabled to obtain,) the difference be- tween the Produce of the fifteen years, before, and after, the commencement of the Civil War, appears to have been enormous. In Guanajuato, the amount of the precious metals raised, diminished from 8,852,472 Marcs of Silver, and 27,810 Marcs of Gold,* (the produce of the fifteen years preceding the Re- volution,)t to 2,877,213 Marcs of Silver, and 8,109 Marcs of Gold, (or something less than one-third of the original amount of both ;) which appears, by the annexed Table (No. VIII.) to have been the produce of the whole District from 1811 to 1825. From Zacatecas, I have been able to obtain but partial accounts: it does not appear, however, by these, that any
- The Marc of Silver may be taken at 8^ dollars, and that of Gold, at
136 dollars ; so that the produce of Guanajuato in dollars, from 1795 to 1810. was 79,028,017 dollars, and from 1811 to 1825, 25,559,009 dollars. t Vide Table VII.
