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suppressed or called in the first edition, in order 

 to add, for the benefit of his purchasers, the voca- 

 bulary which he had found time to prepare within 

 the year. 



The work of San Thomas seems to have glutted 

 the market for some twenty years ; for we do not 

 find that any one made a collection of words or 

 grammatical forms until the year 1586, when 

 Antonio Ricardo published a kind of introduction 

 to the Quichua, having sole reference to that 

 language, without anything more than an explan- 

 ation in Spanish.* This work, like that of his 

 predecessor, was immediately remodelled and re- 

 published in a very much extended form in the 

 same year. Ricardo's books are amongst the first 

 printed in that part of America. 



Diego de Torres Rubio is the next writer of 

 whom I am cognizant. He published at Seville, 

 in 1603, a grammar and vocabulary of the Qui- 

 chua ; the subject still continuing to attract at- 

 tention. Still, as was to be expected, the Quichua 

 language was of more consequence to the Spa- 

 niards of Peru. No doubt, therefore, that Father 

 Juan Martinez found a ready sale for his vocabu- 

 lary, published at Los Reyes in 1604. Indeed, 

 the subject is now attracting the attention of the 

 eminent Diego Gonzalez Holguin, who published 

 first, a new grammar (Gramatica nueva) of the 

 Quichua and Inca dialect, in four books, at the 

 press of Francisco del Canto, in Los Reyes, 1607 ; 

 and second, a vocabulary of the language of the 

 whole of Peru (de todo el Peru), in the same year 

 and at the same press. 



It is worthy of remark, as confuting somewhat 

 fully the assertion of Prescott (Conquest of Peru, 

 vol. ii. p. 188.), that the Spanish name of Ciudad 

 de los Reyes ceased to be used in speaking of 

 Lima " within the first generation," that the books 

 of Ricardo, Holguin, and Huerta (of whom pre- 

 sently) are all stated to have been printed in the 

 Ciudad de los Reyes, though the latest of these 

 appeared in 1616. In 1614, however, to confine 

 myself strictly to the bibliographical inquiry sug- 

 gested by the heading of my article, a method 

 and vocabulary of the Quichua did appear from 

 Canto's press, dated Lima, — a corruption, as is 

 well known, of the word Rimac. 



That, however, the Castilian name should be 

 employed later, is curious. At any rate, it occurs 

 for the last time on the title of a work printed by 

 the same printer, Canto, in 1616; and written by 

 Don Alonso de Huerta, the old title being ad- 

 hered to, probably from some cause unknown to 

 us, but possibly in consequence of old aristocratic 

 opinions and prejudices in favour of the Spanish 

 name. That the name of Lima had obtained con- 

 siderably even in the time of the Conquerors, Mr. 



* Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua, Uamada quichua. 

 En la Ciudad de los Reyes, 1586, 8vo. 



Prescott has sufficiently proved ; but as an official 

 and recognised name it evidently existed to a later 

 period than the historian has mentioned. 



The work of Torres Rubio, already mentioned, 

 was reprinted in Lima by Francisco Lasso in 1619. 

 From this time forward, the subject of the native 

 language of Peru seems to have occupied the 

 attention of many writers. A quarto grammar 

 was published by Diego de Olmos in 1633 of the 

 Indian language, as the Quichuan now came to be 

 called. 



Eleven years later, we find Fernando de Car- 

 rera, curate and vicar of San Martin de Reque, 

 publishing an elaborate work bearing the follow- 

 ing title : 



" Arte de la lengua yunga de los valles del obispado 

 de Truxillo; con un confesonario y todas las oraciones 

 cotidianas y otras cosas : Lima, por Juan de Con- 

 treras, 1644, 16mo." 



Grammars and methods here follow thick and 

 fast. A few years after Carrera's book, in 1648, 

 comes Don Juan Roxo Mexia y Ocon, natural de 

 Cuzco, as he proudly styles himself, with a method 

 of the Indian language : and after a few insig- 

 nificant works, again another in 1691, by Estevan 

 Sancho de Melgar. 



The most common works on the Quichua are 

 the third and fourth editions of Torres Rubio, 

 published at Lima in the year3 1700 and 1754. 

 Of these two works, done with that care and evi- 

 dent pleasure which Jesuits always, and perhaps 

 only, bestow upon these difficult by-roads of phi- 

 lology, I need say no more, as they are very well 

 known. 



Before I close this communication, allow me to 

 suggest to the readers and contributors to the 

 truly valuable " N. & Q.," that no tittle of know- 

 ledge concerning these early philological researches 

 ought to be allowed to remain unrecorded ; and 

 with the position which the " N. & Q." occupies, 

 and the facilities that journal offers for the pre- 

 servation of these stray scraps of knowledge, surely 

 it would not be amiss to send them to the Editor, 

 and let him decide, as he is very capable of doing, 

 as to their value. Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie. 



February 20. 1854. 



CONDUITT AND NEWTON. 



In the prospectus of a new Life of sir Isaac 

 Newton, by sir David Brewster, it is stated that 

 in examining the papers at Hurstbourne Park, 

 the seat of the earl of Portsmouth, the discovery 

 had been made of "copious materials which Mr. 

 Conduit had collected for a life of Newton, which 

 had never been supposed to exist" 



About the year 1836 I consulted the principal 

 biographers of Newton — Conduitt, Fontenelle, 

 Birch, Philip Nichols, Thomas Thomson, Biot, 



