38 A VOYAGE TO Book VÍÍ 



ÍÍERE is also an orphan-lioiiie, divided into two 

 co]lc2:es, one for the boys, and the other for the twirls : 

 besides severa! ehai'els, in difi'erent parts of the city ; 

 but the following; list will shew at once, the parishes, 

 liospitals, churches aild monasteries of Lima; which 

 was always no less conspicuous with rei^ard to a zeal 

 for religion than for splendour. 



List of the parishes, convents of each order, hos- 

 pitals, nunneries, and conventual houses in Lima. 



Parishes 6. 



Convents of San Dominico, 4. Of San Fran- 

 cis, 3. Of San Aupistin, 3. Of la Merced, o. 



Colleges of Jesuits, 6. 



ORATORY of St. Philip Neri, \. 



Monastery of Benedictins, I. Of San Francisco 

 de Paula, 1. Of A<;Oiiizantes, L Of San Juan de 

 Dios, 1 . Of Bethlemites, 2. 



Nunneries of Regulars, 5. Of RecoUets, 9. 



CoNvr.MTLiAL House, 4. Houses for poor wo- 

 men, I. Orphan house, I. Hospitals, 12. 



All the churches, both conventual and parochial, 

 and also the chapels, are large, constructed partly of 

 stone, and adorned with paintings and í>¿jier decora- 

 tions of great value ; particularly the cattiedral, the 

 churches of St. Dominic, St. Francis, St. Augustin, 

 the fathers of Mercy, and that of the Jesuits, are so 

 splendidly decorated, as to surpas? description; an 

 idea being only to be formed by the sight. The 

 riches aud pomp of this city, es: eeiallv <>n solemn 

 festivals, are astonishing. The altars, from their very 

 bases to the borders of the paint ¡p;js, are covered 

 with niassive silver, wrought into various kinds of 

 ornamv'».;is. The walls also of the clrirches are hung 

 with vei vet, or tapestry of equal vaiue, adorjied with 

 goid an(i silver fringes: all which in ihi^ country is 

 remarkably dear ; and on these are splendid p(e( es of 

 |,]ate ill various iigures. If the eye be dúccted from 



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