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MEXICO IN 1827.
419
as the Total, or 30,586,273 dollars seven reals, as the average annual amount of the whole Exports and Imports of Veracruz.
This falls considerably short of Humboldt's estimate, (thirty-seven millions,) but is, I conceive, more correct, for in the twenty-two millions, at which he values the exports of Mexico, he includes Sugar,
| to the amount of | 1,300,000 | dollars. |
| Cochineal, | 2,400,000 | |
| and Flour, | 300,000 | |
| ————— | ||
| 4,000,000 |
whereas Sugar only averaged, from 1804 to 1810 inclusive, 281,025 dollars per annum; and Cochineal 1,100,327 dollars; of Flour exported, I can find no traces; so that, in these three articles alone, there was a diminution of 2,618,648 dollars, the estimate
| being | 4,000,000 | dollars. |
| the real exportation | 1,381,352 | |
| ————— | ||
| Difference | 2,618,648 |
calculated on a term of seven years.[1]
This reduces Humboldt's estimate from thirty-
- ↑ I never venture to differ from Baron Humboldt without both diffidence and regret; but in the present instance, I am merely stating in 1827, what has actually occurred, in lieu of forming an estimate beforehand; which, however warranted by appearances at the time, might be, and has been, contradicted by the course of events.
