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8. La Caridad, ajfo for women. 



9. San Lazaro, for the lepers, which, with thofe already enumerated, make twelve. 



Here are alfo fourteen nunneries, the number of perfons in which would be fufEcient 

 to people a fmall town. The five firft are regulars, and the other nine recolleds : 



I. La Encarnation. — 2. La Conception. — 3. Santa Cathalina. — 4. Santa Clara. — 

 5. La Trinidad. — 6. El Carmen. — 7. Santa Terefa, o El Carmen baxo. — 8. Las 

 Defcalzas de San Jofeph. — 9. Las Capuchinas. — 10. Las Nazarenas. — 11. Las Mer- 

 cidarias. — 12. Santa Rofa. — 13. Las Trinitarias Defcalzas. — 14. Las Monjas del 

 Prado. 



Laftly, Here are four other conventual houfes, where fome few of the fillers are not 

 reclufes, though moft of them obferve that rule. Thefe houfes are : 



I. Santa Rofa de Viterbo. — 2. Nueflra Senora del Patrocinio. — 3. Nueftra Senora 

 de Capacabana, for Indian ladies. — 4. San Jofeph, 



The laft is a retreat for women who defire to be divorced from their hufbands. 

 There is alfo a houfe conftituted in the manner of convents, for poor women, and 

 under the diredion of an ecclefiaftic appointed by the archbifliop, who is alfo their 

 chaplain. 



The moft numerous of all thefe nunneries are the Incarnation, Conception, Santa 

 Clara, and Santa Cathalina. The others are indeed not fo large; but the Recolleds, 

 in the reditude and aufterity of their lives, are an example to the whole city. 



Here is alfo an orphan-houfe, divided into two colleges, one for the boys, and the 

 other for the girls ; befides feveral chapels, in different parts of the city ; but the fol- 

 lowing lift will fhew at once, the parifhes, hofpitals, churches, and monafteries of 

 Lima, which was always no lefs confpicuous with regard to a zeal for religion than 

 for fplendour. 



'Liji of the Parijhes, Convents of each Order, Hofpitals, Nunneries, and Conventual 



Houfes in Lima» 



Parifhes, fix. 



Convents bf San Domingo, four. — Of San Francis, three. — Of San Auguftin, 

 three. — Of La Merced, three. 



Colleges of Jefuits, fix. 

 ' Oratory of St. Philip Neri, one. 



Monaftery of Benedidins, one. — Of San Francifco de Paula, one. — Of Agoni- 

 zantes, one. — Of San Juan de Dios, one. — Of Bethlemites, two. 



Nunneries of Regulars, five. — Of Recolleds, nine. 



Conventual Houfes, four. — Houfes for poor women, one. — Orphan houfe, one. "— 

 Hofpitals, twelve. 



All the churches, both conventual and parochial, and alfo the chapels, are large, 

 conftruded partly of ftone, and adorned with paintings and other decorations of great 

 value; particularly the cathedral, the churches of St. Dominic, St. Francis, St. Au- 

 guftin, the Fathers of Mercy, and that of the Jefuits, are fo fplendidly decorated, as 

 to furpafs defcription, an idea being only to be formed by the fight. The riches and 

 pomp of this city, efpecially on folemn feftivals, are aftonifhing. The altars, from 



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