64 A VOYAGE TO Book VII. 



less common, than might naturally be expected in 

 such a populous city. 



The manners and dispositions of the nobility, 

 correspond with their rank and fortune. Courtesy 

 shines in all their actions, and their complaisance to 

 strangers is without limits. The reception they give 

 them, is equally free from flattery and a hau;.;hty re- 

 serve ; so that all the Europeans, whether they visit 

 them out of curiosity or from commercial motives, 

 are charmed with their probity, politeness, candour, 

 and magnihcence. 



CHAP. VI. 



Of the Climate of the City of Lima, and the -whole 

 Coiintrij of Valles : and the Divisions of the Sea- 

 sons. 



''"I^HE temperature of the air of Lima, and its 

 -a- alterations, would be greatly injured by an 

 inference drawn from what is ñ it in the same degree 

 of noath lati^nde ; as Lima would from thence be con- 

 cluded another Carthagena; the latitude of both cities, 

 one in the northern and the other in the soutliern he- 

 misphere, diifering but very little ; whereas in fact it 

 is ^quite the reverse. For as that of Carthagena is hot 

 to a degreeof inconvenience, this of Limáis perfectly 

 agreeable. And though the diiierence of the four 

 seasons are sensible, all of them are moderate, and 

 none of them troublesouie. 



Sfrimg begins towards the close of the year, that 

 is, towards the end of November, or beginning of 

 December. But this is to be understood only of the 

 heavens, as then the vapours which filled tlie at- 

 mosphere duricg the winter subside, the sun to the 



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