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MEXICO. 379* 8an Bias and Mazatlan, do not more than cover the amount of the imports : as, from the moment that the port of San Bias was opened to Foreign trade by General Cruz, in 1812, the value of the European manufactures with which the Ta- ble-land was supplied through this channel, can hardly have been less than the average amount of the exports of the twelve years, viz. : 7^5,608 dollars. At San Bias, therefore, as at Veracruz, no allowance can be made upon the registered exports of specie for the property of Old Spaniards transferred to Europe ; the exports being hardly equivalent in value to the European Imports. The same may be said of Acapfdco and Mazatlan : yet, the Spa- nish property actually realized, and abstracted from the capital of the country as it existed in 1810, is calculated by the best informed Mexicans, (as I have stated in Section V. of the last Book,) at from eighty, to one hundred and forty millions of dollars. Let us first, therefore, see the amount of the whole registered exports, and then consider the additions which must be made to it. The value in dollars of the exports from Veracruz, was : — Dollars. From 1811 to 1820 . .' . 68,291,206 From 1821 to 1825 . . . 26,171,221 San Bias (in the fifteen years) . . 8,827,299 Mazatlan (ditto) , . . . 2,622,076 Acapulco (ditto. .... 3,292,752 Total, in fifteen years . 109,204,554 Of the Exports on the Kings account, which are not in- cluded in this estimate, nothing certain is known ; but, from the difiiculty which the Viceregal Government experienced from 1811 to 1817? in raising funds to meet the exigencies of the moment in Mexico, I am induced to believe that, during