1008 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



Peru, ill which is first considered its 

 botany, the most satisfactory part of 

 wliich is, the history of the loiinding 

 the botanical garden at Lima, under 

 the extended and munificent palron. 



be extended, and the latter science 

 will, more especially, be enriched, 

 not only by new specifics, but, like- 

 wise, by the knowledge of plants, 

 hiflicrto ncj;lcctcd among us, whicl' 



age of the late Spanish monarch, in may be profitabhy sul)stitutcd for 

 ■which ten years of unceasitig appli- those of Europe." + 

 cation and of profound study, of the The following divisions of this part 

 noble personages to whom it was of tlie work relate to the zoology 

 entrusted, have succeeded in the ac- and anthropology of Peru ; both of' 

 quisitionof immense botanical riches, which are very nieagerly discussed, 

 and have supplied to the parent The dcscrijjtiou of a Peruvian giant, 

 country the materials for that great now living, is the only matter con- ^ 

 national work, the Flora ol Peru I tained in them the least interesting. 



" The benefits which will accrue," Part ihc^d. which contains the mi- 

 it is Avell remarked by our author, ncralogy of Peru, opens with an ac- 

 *' to the arts and sciences, from the count of the actual slate and enume- 

 lahuurs of Don Juan Tafaya, and ration of the ditlcrent mines of vari- 

 the lucubrations of the academical ous metals, within the viccroyalty of 

 society of Lima, are invaluable. 'Peru, at the commencement of the 

 AgricuKure will be ameliorated by year 1791; which, as containing 

 the lights w hich « ill be thrown upon mucli valuable iuformation, we shall 

 it, and will cease to be neglected, as give at Icngih. 

 it has, unfortunately, hitherto been. «' In the intcndeucy of Lima, with 

 The commerce of Pern will, conse- its dependency of Guarochiri, there 

 qiicntly, be augmented ; as well by are four mines of gold ; onehundred 

 the increase of agricultural produce, and thirty-one of silver; one of 

 as by the discovery of vegetables, quicksilver ; and four of copper ; all 

 calculated to nourish and promote of which were worked in 175)1, 

 the breeds of quadrupeds.* This when this enumeration was taken, 

 observation applies equally to the Seventy silver mines hud then, for 

 plants and shrubs for dyeing, and various reasons, been abandoned, 

 other puri)oses, the catalogue of "In the inteiidtncy of Tarma, with 

 which will be proportionably en- its dependencies of Pasco and 11 ual- 

 larged.f The limits of natural his- lanca, two hundred and twenty- 

 tory, physics, and incdecine will seven mints of silver were wrought, 



and 



* In the plains of Uomlioa is found ;in lierb^ named by the Intiians callua-culliia; 

 which t)cing given every lliird d-iy to sheep, begiiinliig three months before the shear- 

 ing time, augments very consiiierably tiie grawcti of their woo!. The hwilgua, or 

 hnrki jovis, a species of psoraloa, is highly etricacious as a preservative against the 

 rot in sheep. 



f Amoiig the indii'Cnous shrubs which grow spontaneously on the mountains of 

 Peru, is tliat whidi bears the coffee : it was rii?covci;cd, in ilic year 1785, by the Peru- 

 vian bolaiiists, Kui^aiid Pavon, at the font of the niomitiiiii of Carpis, in tlie province 

 of Iluaiiuco. The coflce when prepared was found to be of an excellent quality. 



t tn I'cru, there are several kinds of Hypericum, Senna, ^"alerian, tS:c. which arc 

 employed with efticacy by the Indians, in several of their cstablis'iments in the Sienr'.. 

 tiut which are rejected in the cosKtal, where a blind preference is given to tliosc loi- 

 poited fiom distant eouiitrics. 



