Square leagues. NEW SPAIN extends over a surface equal to 118,748 GUATIMALA 26,152 CUBA and PUERTO RICO 6,921 FLORIDAS 8,555 NEW GRANADA 64,520 CARACCAS 47,856 PERU 30,390 CHILI 22,574 BUENOS AYRES or LA PLATA 143,014 ------- 468,730 ------- Making an extent of country equal to 468,730 square leagues; whilst GREAT BRITAIN, which has a population of 12,596,800 souls, occupies a space equal only to 87,502 square miles. The MINES of the empire of Spanish America furnish annually in gold and silver in-- £ Sterling. NEW SPAIN to the value of 5,030,800 NEW GRANADA 507,000 PERU and CHILI 1,730,000 BUENOS AYRES or LA PLATA 882,000 --------- 8,149,800 --------- Making a total of 8,149,800_l._ sterling; to which may be added more than another million for the contraband trade. The COMMERCE of these countries annually averages in-- £ Sterling. Importations 12,826,500 Exportations of agricultural produce 6,500,000 Exportations of gold and silver 8,149,800 And the annual REVENUE is equal to nearly eight millions of pounds sterling. INDEX TO THE PRINCIPAL PLACES AND SUBJECTS TREATED OF IN THE FOREGOING VOLUMES. A _Abancay_, district and town of, Peru, ii. 143. _Abancay_, battle of the bridge of, ii. 98. _Abipons_ Indians, ii. 228. _Abolishment_ of the slave trade, ii. 22. _Acamapitzin_, King of Mexico, i. 109. _Acapulco_, city of Mexico, unhealthiness of, i. 34. Great mart for New Spain and India, 41. Description of, population, &c., 133. _Aconcagua_, city and province of, Chili, ii. 269. _Agave_, or aloe, supplies the liquor most drank in Mexico, and method of making it, i. 39. _Aguas Calientes_, city of New Spain, i. 101. _Aguaracatay_, lake of La Plata, ii. 163. _Aguatulco_, town of New Spain, i. 153. _Aguilar Jeromimo_, found on the Isle of Cozumel, by Cortez, i. 196. _Ahuitzotl_, Mexican King, i. 113. _Aillavalu_ toqui or war chief of Chili, ii. 237. _Alamos_, mine of, New Spain, i. 92. _Alangi_, or St. Jago El Angel, town of Guatimala, i. 179. _Alausi_, city of New Granada, i. 320. _Albuquerque_, town of New Spain, i. 69. _Alcolhuacan_, kingdom, i. 103. _Alfinger_ and Sailler, German merchants, cruelties practised by, in Caraccas, ii. 59.