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520 N.B. By the foregoing Table it appears that there were taken 347 Levels at about 100 yards apart.

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,, 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.

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.