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PERU. 
The remains of the town occupy some undulating ground, of less 
elevation, a quarter of a mile to the northward. This also forms a 
rectangle, one-fifth by one-third of a mile in size ; through the middle 
runs lengthwise a straight street, twenty feet in width. The walls of 
some of the ruins are thirty feet high, and cross each other at right 
angles. The buildings were apparently connected together, except 
where the streets intervened. The larger areas were again divided 
by thinner partitions, and one of them was observed to contain four 
rectangular pits, the plastering of which appeared quite fresh. 
The annexed wood-cut will give a representation of the ground, 
&c. ; both are from sketches made by Lieutenant Underwood. 
GROUND PLAN OF FACHACAMAC. 
No traces of doors or windows towards the streets could be dis- 
covered, nor indeed any where else. The walls were exclusively of 
sun-dried brick, and their direction, northeast and southwest, the 
same as those of the temple, which fronted the sea. 
Some graves were observed to the southward of the temple, but 
the principal burying-ground was between the temple and town. 
Some of the graves were rectangular pits, lined with a dry wall of 
stone, and covered with layers of reeds and canes, on which the earth 
was filled in to the depth of a foot or more, so as to be even with the 
surface. The skulls brought from this place were of various charac- 
ters ; the majority presented the vertical elevation, or raised occiput, 
the usual characteristic of the ancient Peruvians, while others had 
the forehead and top of the head depressed. Eight of these were 
obtained, and are now deposited at Washington. The bodies were 
found enveloped in cloth of various qualities, and a variety in its 
colours still existed. 
Various utensils and other articles were found, which seemed to 
denote the occupation of the individual : wooden needles and weaving 
utensils ; netting made in the usual style ; a sling ; cordage of various 
kinds; a sort of coarse basket; fragments of pottery, and plated 
stirrups. They also found various vegetable substances: husks of 
