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Rh 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,

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

calculated on a term of seven years.

This reduces Humboldt's estimate from