MEXICO. 309 Or, more generally, Average Exports . 22,000,000 Imports . 15,000,000 Amount of Trade . 37,000,000 {Mouvement du Commerce.) This includes the silver exported on the account of the King, as well as the paper and quicksilver imported for the Royal Monopolies ; which circumstance it is necessary to bear in mind, because the analysis of the Consulado Reports would, otherwise, give a result so different from that given by Hum- boldt, that the one would seem to contradict the other, and thus render any calculation founded upon the two illusory. But the Consulado never included in the Balanza General the Imports or Exports on the account of the Royal Treasury, which must, therefore, be added to each year, in order to give the total amount. During the twenty-five years comprehended in the Vera^ cruz annual report, the Trade of New Spain, exclusive of smuggling, was as follows : — Exports. Dollars. Value in dollars to Spain, 197,853,520 Ditto to Cuba, and Spanish America, . . 49,388,246 Foreign Countries direct . 32,292,457 Total 279,534,223 Imports. From Spain . . 186,125,113 Cuba, &c. . . 51,008,190 Foreign Countries direct . 21,972,637 259,105,940 Total Exports and Imports of 25 years 538,640,163
