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426 were designated; the annual average value of which was supposed to amount to 600,000 dollars.

Soap, leather, hats, and pottery, were likewise made in very large quantities; and, at one time, the earthenware of La Puebla and Guădălajāră, formed a considerable article of exportation on the Western coast, where it was shipped at Acapulco, for Gūyaquīl and Perū.

But the trade on the Pacific side was never of any importance in comparison with that of Veracruz. It consisted, almost exclusively, in Chinese and Indian silks and muslins, which formed the cargo of the Galleon, (or Nao de la China,) in return for which remittances in specie were made: the total amount of these varied from one and a half, to two millions of dollars; the whole of the imports and exports not having averaged more than three millions and a half of dollars, on a term of fifteen years, ending in 1810; at which time I conceive the trade of the galleons to have died a natural death.

By the preceding statement, it will appear, that the whole annual average value, in dollars, of the Trade of Mexico with Europe, before the year 1821, was:—

That the average value of the Trade, on the