N.B. By the foregoing Table it appears that there were taken 347 Levels at about 100 yards apart.
Feet. | In. | Lines. | |
The aggregate Amount of the Descents of Land between the South Sea and the Lake were | 604 | 9 | 6 |
The aggregate Amount of the Heights of Land between the South Sea and the Lake were | 470 | 9 | 11 |
Making an excess of Descents above the Heights of | |||
Feet | 133 | 11 | 7 |
or forty-four yards, one foot, eleven inches and a half; which calculation is the Level of the Lake, at high water, above the average height of land between the Lake and the South Sea: but it should also be remarked, that, although, in all the maps extant, this tract is represented as mountainous, the greatest actual height of any part of the above land is only nineteen feet one inch, as appears by the Level, Number 219, in this Table. The distance between the Lake and the sea, at the proposed communication, is, by the above measurement of 32,687 yards, only 4 leagues 4,687 yards, of 7,000 yards Spanish; to the league.
TABLE OF COINAGE
IN
THE MINT OF GUATEMALA.
Years. | Marks of Silver. |
Marks of Gold. |
Value in Dollars. |
1820 | 41,309 0 5 | 351,127 1¼ | |
1821 | 45,808 7 5 | 389,376 0¾ | |
1822 | 16,214 2 5 | 137,821 6¼ | |
1823 | 34,628 2 3 | 146 0 3 0 | 314,202 7 |
1824 | 6,475 0 5 | 526 0 2 0 | 126,578 3¼ |
From January to 12th July, 1825 | 12,155 3 1 | 253 1 2 3 | 137,751 1 |
Totals. | 156,591 1 0 | 925 1 7 3 | 1,456,857 3½ |
N.B. Subsequent to the Revolution, the whole amount of the precious metals raised in Guatemala, after adding, for contraband exportation, two-thirds to the amount coined, does not exceed one million of dollars per annum.