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together is a thing equally wonderful, since the Indians had neither carts nor 

 oxen nor ropes wherewith to drag them by main force. Nor were there level 

 roads over which to transport them, but, on the contrary, steep mountains and 

 abrupt declivities to be overcome by the simple force of men. IMany of the 

 stones were lirought from 10 to 1.5 leagues, and especially the stone, or rather 



Fig. 199. a, 1), Marvelous mural masomy of the ancient I'eruvians. 



the rock, called Saycusca, or the " Tired Stone," because it never reached the 

 structure, and which it is known was brought a distance of 15 leagues, from 

 beyond the river of Yiicay, which is little less in size than the Guadalquivir at 

 Cordova. The stones obtained nearest were from Muyna, 5 leagues from Cuzco. 

 It passes the power of imagination to conceive how so many and so great stones 



