Note XXXII-40 — Chapter XXXII · INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. 1800-1887.

Information for the years preceding 1800 may be gleaned from Juarros, Guat., 16-79, passim; Id., Stat. and Com. Hist. Guat., 21-105, passim; Montanus, Die Nieuwe Weereld, 275-7; Arevalo, Compend., 175; Russell's Hist. Am., 191, 391-2; Churchill's Coll., viii. 764-5; Dunn's Guat., 222-5; Squier's Trav., i. 39-40; Id., Guat., 586-7. To the end of the Spanish rule most of the precious metals from Hond. were smuggled out through Belize and Mosquito, probably one third only reaching the mint at Guat. The coinage in 1817-18, was $983,225; 1820-4, $1,319,106. Thompson's Guat., 217, 520. The superintend. of the old Guat. mint calculated the coinage in gold and silver for the 15 years anterior to 1810 at $2,193,832, and for the 15 years posterior at $3,810,382, adding that much of the production had been exported in its native state or manufactured. He estimated the actual products of the mines in those 30 years at ten times the amount coined; his estimate could probably bear some deduction. De Bow's Review, Jan. 1855, 77-8.