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MEXICO IN 1827.
The Average Imports of each year, according to the same author, were—
| Value in Dollars. | |
| Ropas, (linens, cottons, cloths, and silks) | 9,200,000 |
| Paper, 300,000 reams | 1,000,000 |
| Brandy | 1,000,000 |
| Cacao | 1,000,000 |
| Quicksilver | 650,000 |
| Iron | 600,000 |
| Steel | 200,000 |
| Wine | 700,000 |
| Wax | 300,000 |
| ————— | |
| Total | 14,650,000 |
| ————— | |
| Or, more generally. Average Exports | 22,000,000 |
| Imports | 15,000,000 |
| ————— | |
| Amount of Trade | 37,000,000 |
(Mouvement du Commerce.)
This includes the silver exported on the account of the King, as well as the paper and quicksilver imported for the Royal Monopolies; which circumstance it is necessary to bear in mind, because the analysis of the Consulado Reports would, otherwise, give a result so different from that given by Humboldt, that the one would seem to contradict the other, and thus render any calculation founded upon the two illusory. But the Consulado never included
