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fliould have conveuiencies suited to the accommodation 

 of a family •' But as thej were devoted to the wor- 

 Ihip of the deitj, no expence in rearing them would 

 be reckoned too great, nor any labour be deemed a 

 hardlhip when it was applied for such a pious pur- 

 pose. In Peru, where the habitations of individuals, 

 at the time of the Spaniih conquest, were poor and in- 

 significant, and so periihable as to have fallen long 

 ago into total ruin, their temples, somewhat similar 

 in their form and mode of building to those which, 

 now claim our attention, were built in such a maf- 

 sive manner, and, with infinite art and labour, were 

 so firmly compacted together, £ls still to remain tlie 

 objects of wonder and astonilliment to all who behold 

 them. In this view, therefore, we meet with no- 

 thing contradictory to common sense, and the general 

 experience of mankind : And were we acquainted 

 with the form of worfhip of the people who reared 

 these structures, we fliould probably be able to see 

 the obvious uses of those peculiarities which now to 

 us appear inexplicable. 



But for whatever tribes of people these structures 

 lliall have been built, it seems to be pretty certain 

 that it could not be for any people who followed the 

 worlhip of the ancient druids, as it was practieed in 

 Mona, and other places where that system of religion 

 prevailed ; for in none of these places have any ves- 

 tiges of temples of this sort been discovered', nor any 

 hints tliut could induce us to believe they ever em- 

 ployed any such. By the best accounts their places 

 vvoriliip never Avere bounded by walls, but their 

 'igious rites were always performed in the fields. 



