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self ííve leagues, namely, to the "valley ofCarabaillo, 

 and to it belong the many lar«2:e plantations in that 

 space ; chapels are therefore erccied for celebrating 

 mass on days of precept, that tijc people may perform 

 their duty without the fatigue and trouble of travel- 

 ling to Lima. Here are also two chapels of ease : that 

 of St. Salvador in the parish of St. Ann ; and that of 

 the or})hans, in the Sagrario. There is also in the 

 Cercado, one of the quarters of the town, a parish of 

 Indians, under the care of the Jesuits. 



The convents here are very numerous; four Do- 

 minicans, \iz. La Casa grande, Recolleccion de la 

 Magdalena, the college of St. Thomas appropriated 

 to literature, and Santa Rosa. Three of iuanciscans^ 

 viz. Casa grande. Recoletos de nuestra Señora de los 

 Angeles, or Guadalupe, and Los Descalzos de San 

 Diego: the latter is in the suburb of San Lázaro. 

 Three of the order of Augustin, namely. Casa 

 grande ; the seminary of San Ildefonso, a literary 

 college ; and the noviciate at Nuestra Señora de Guia. 

 Three also belong to the order of Merey, namelj-, the 

 Casa principal, the college of St. Pedro Noiasco, and 

 a Recolleccion, called Bethlehem. 



The Jesuits have six colleges or houses, which 

 are those of St Paul, their principal college ; St. 

 Martin, a college for secular students ; St. An- 

 thony, a noviciate ; the house of possession, or de- 

 samparados, under the invocation of Nuestra Señora 

 de los Dolores ; a college in the Circado, where the 

 Indians are instructed in the precepts of religion ; 

 and that of the Chacarilla, appointed for the exer- 

 cises of St. Ignatius ; and accordingly ail seculars on 

 their desire to perform them are admitted. They 

 are also allowed the liberty of beginning when most 

 convenient for tliemselves, and are handsomely en- 

 tertained by the college during the eight days of their 

 continuance. But it must be observed, that of all 

 ihtie convents, the Casas grandes are now the most 

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