Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines.

银矿、金矿、锡矿。

It was once home to many silver mines and towns that grew up around them. Today, most of them are empty“ghost towns.”

这里曾经有很多银矿，而且在银矿周围衍生出了许多小镇。今天，这些小镇大部分都是空空的“城市的废墟”。

Vespasian was sent south-west to  secure control of the tin and silver mines in Cornwall and Somerset.

维斯帕芗被派往西南地区，以确保对康沃尔郡和萨默塞特郡锡矿和银矿的控制。

The mines of America, besides, are by no means the only gold and silver mines in the world.

此外，美国的矿山绝不是世界上唯一的金矿和银矿。

Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru.

在秘鲁，银矿经营者的利润通常也不是很高。

Since the first discovery of America, the market for the produce of its silver mines has been growing gradually more and more extensive.

自发现美洲以来，其银矿产品的市场逐渐扩大，范围越来越广。

There was also a diversion of forces to the silver faction which had a substantial support in the silver mine owners of the West.

力量也转向了白银派系，该派系在西方的银矿所有者中得到了实质性的支持。

To the expectation of finding gold and silver mines, those first settlers, too, joined that of discovering a north-west passage to the East Indies.

为了找到金矿和银矿， 这些第一批定居者也加入了发现通往东印度群岛的西北通道的行列。

After the discovery of the mines of Peru, the silver mines of Europe were, the greater part of them, abandoned.

秘鲁的矿山被发现后，欧洲的大部分银矿都被废弃了。

In the countries first discovered by the Spaniards, no gold and silver mines are at present known which are supposed to be worth the working.

在西班牙人最先发现的国家中，目前还没有已知值得开采的金矿和银矿。

So one seventh of the adult male Indian population from each district was required to work in the silver mines for a year, being paid only subsistence wages.

因此，每个地区有七分之一的成年印度男性人口必须在银矿工作一年，仅能获得维持生计的工资。

And they were like, " You know what would pay better than selling beef jerky? Robbing Spanish galleons, " which as you’ll recall were loaded with silver mined from South America.

他们就像，“你知道什么比卖牛肉干更赚钱吗？ 抢劫西班牙大帆船， ” 你会记得，这些大帆船上装满了从南美洲开采的银。

The profits of the undertakers of gold mines, too, as they more rarely make a fortune, must, in general, be still more moderate than those of the undertakers of silver mines.

金矿经营者的利润也是如此，因为他们很少发财，所以一般来说，必须比银矿经营者的利润更适中。

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.

但是秘鲁的银矿现在连这么低的租金都付不起； 1736 年，白银税从五分之一减少到十分之一。

America, therefore, is a new market for the produce of its own silver mines, of which the demand must increase much more rapidly than that of the most thriving country in Europe.

因此，美国是本国银矿产品的新市场，其需求的增长速度肯定比欧洲最繁荣的国家快得多。

Though both the gold and silver mines of America exceeded in fertility all those which had ever been known before, the fertility of the silver mines had, it seems, been proportionally still greater than that of the gold ones.

尽管美国的金矿和银矿的肥力都超过了以前已知的所有矿山，但银矿的肥力似乎在比例上仍高于金矿。

As the sovereign, however, derives a considerable part of his revenue from the produce of silver mines, the law in Peru gives every possible encouragement to the discovery and working of new ones.

然而，由于君主的相当一部分收入来自银矿的产品，秘鲁的法律尽可能鼓励发现和开采新银矿。

Rent, therefore, it is probable, makes a greater part of the price of tin at the most fertile tin mines than it does of silver at the most fertile silver mines in the world.

因此，很可能地租在最肥沃的锡矿中对锡价格的影响大于对世界上最肥沃的银矿中白银的影响。

In the greater part of the silver mines of Peru, the tax of the king of Spain, amounting to a tenth of the gross produce, eats up, it has already been observed, the whole rent of the land.

在秘鲁的大部分银矿中，西班牙国王的税收占总产量的十分之一，耗尽了土地的全部租金。

In these taxes, too, it has already been observed, consists the whole rent of the greater part of the gold and silver mines of Spanish America; and that upon gold is still worse paid than that upon silver.

我们已经注意到，在这些税收中，西班牙美洲大部分金矿和银矿的全部地租也是如此；黄金的报酬比白银的还差。