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steps, which lead to a seat hollowed out in 

 the same stone, and so placed, that from the 

 bottom of a hollow the image of the sun may 

 be seen. 



The natives relate, that, when the Inca Tupa- 

 yupangi advanced with his army to make the 

 conquest of the kingdom of Quito, then governed 

 by the Conchocando of Lican, the priests dis- 

 covered on the stone the image of the divinity, 

 whose worship ought to be introduced among 

 the conquered nations. The inhabitants of 

 Cuzco thought they every where beheld the 

 figure of the Sun, as the Christians, under every 

 zone, have found either crosses, or the print of 

 the feet of the Apostle St. Thomas, traced on 

 rocks. The Peruvian prince aud his soldiers 

 considered the discovery of the stone of Inti- 

 Guaicu as of happy augury: it contributed, with- 

 out doubt, to induce the Incas to build a habita- 

 tion at Cannar : for it is known, that the descend- 

 ants of Manco-Capao considered themselves as 

 the children of the star of day, an opinion 

 which offers a singular coincidence between the 

 first legislator of Peru, and that of India *, 

 who was also called Vawasaouta, or son of the 

 Sun. 



* Menou 2, or Sat} avrala. Reelievches Asiatique3, ton*. 

 1, p. 170 ; torn. 2, p. 172. Paolin. Systema Brachraan, 

 p. 141. 



