Peru

Examples

• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This was the case, too, with the mines of Cuba and St. Domingo, and even with the ancient mines of Peru, after the discovery of those of Potosi. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru used the process of fixing two metals together by the action of heat, before making up. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The sums spent upon the reception of a new viceroy of Peru, for example, have frequently been enormous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After the discovery of the mines of Peru, the silver mines of Europe were, the greater part of them, abandoned. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Frezier, who visited Peru in 1713, represents Lima as containing between twenty-five and twenty-eight thousand inhabitants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were voyages in Japanese-built ships to India and Peru. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The silver of Peru finds its way, not only to Europe, but from Europe to China. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One of them was the Aztec civilization of Mexico; the other, that of Peru. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In modern times large supplies of gold were obtained after the discovery of America from Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of the New World. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Even Mexico and Peru, though they cannot be considered as altogether new markets, are certainly much more extensive ones than they ever were before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then he went to Peru as partner of a man who had a grizzly bear which they proposed entering against a bull in the bull-ring in that city. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Like Cortez, too, who had made a captive and tool of Montezuma, he seized the Inca of Peru by treachery, and attempted to rule in his name. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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