Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for several reasons. That’s quite a pity while these books contains useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible.
p. 73: “The azogues or kings (1)p. 74: quicksilver ships have licences for some dry goods.”
Source
William Douglass. A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements and present state of the British settlements in North-America. London, 1760.
Original footnote
1. The azogues quick-silver is only for refining the Mexico silver. Peru produces native cinnabar, the ore of quick-silver; the quick-silver mines of Peru were discovered anno 1567. Virgin silver is spungy and brittle, being so called from its having no mixture of alloy or impregnation, but in the state in which the quick-silver left it. Other metals with the denomination virgin (gold, copper), signify grains or lumps of natural metal, requiring little or no refining.
