424 VIEWS, &C. PLATEAL OF CAXAMA.RCA. 



the Quichua language Tampu, whence the Spanish term 

 Tambo (an inn). On the subject of these Aposentos see 

 Cieqa's Chronica del Peru (cap. 41 ed. de 1544, p. 108), and 

 my Vues des Cordilleres (PI. xxiv). 



(4) p. 394" The fortress of the Canar." 



This fortress is situated near Turche, and at an elevation of 

 about 10,640 feet.* Not far distant from the Fortaleza del 

 Canar is situated the celebrated ravine of the sun, called the 

 Inti -Guaycu (in the Quichua language huaycco]. In this ravine 

 there are some rocks on which the natives imagine they see 

 the image of the sun, and a bench called the Inga-Chungana 

 (Incachuncana), the Inca's play. I made drawings of both. 

 ( Vues des Cord., pi. xviii. et xix.) 



(5) p. 394 " Causeways covered with cemented gravel" 



See Velasco's Historia de Quito, 1844, (t. i. p. 126 

 128), and Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru, (vol. i. 

 F . 157.) 



(6) p. 395" Flights of Steps." 



See Pedro Sancho in Ramusio, vol. iii. fol. 404, and the 

 Extracts from Manuscript Letters of Hernando Pizarro, of 

 which Mr. Prescott, the great historical writer, now at 

 Boston, has so advantageously availed himself (vol. i. p. 444). 

 "El camino de las sierras es cosa de ver, porque en verdad en 

 tierra tan fragosa en la cristiandad no se han visto tan her- 

 mosos caminos, toda la mayor parte de calzada."f 



(7) p. 396 " Greeks, Romans, $*c., present examples of these 

 contrasts" 



" The Greeks," says Strabo, (lib. v. p. 235, Casaub,) " in 

 building their cities sought to produce a happy result by 

 aiming at the union of beauty and solidity ; but, on the other 

 hand, the Romans directed particular attention to objects 

 which the Greeks neglected ; paving the streets with stone, 



* I have given a drawing of it in the Vues des Cordilleres, pi. xvii. ; 

 see also Cie^a, cap. 44, P. i. p. 120. 



t Translation." 1 ^^ road of the Sierras is wonderful to behold; for 

 truly, throughout all Christendom, there are not to be seen such beau- 

 tiful roads on such rugged ground, and, for the most part they are pa Ted.' 



