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are high enough for the passage of a man 

 seated in a palanquin, and carried on the 

 shoulders of the servants. The niches* 

 formed in the inner walls are indicated in 

 the plan. 

 The principal view in this work being to pre- 

 sent an exact idea of the state of the arts among 

 the civilized nations of America, we have pre- 

 ferred giving a description of the ruins of the 

 house of the Inca at Cannar as they appeared in 

 1739. Several walls have been thrown down 

 since that period ; and I had great difficulty in 

 finding the whole of the divisions, which are 

 traced in the plan of M. de la Condamine. 



II. The ruins of the ancient city of Chulucanas 

 are very remarkable, on account of the extreme 

 regularity of the streets and buildings. We find 

 these ruins on the ridge of the Cordilleras, at 

 fourteen hundred toises height, in the Paramo of 

 Chulucanas, between the Indian villages of Aya- 

 vaca and Guancabamba. The high road of the 

 Inca, one of the most useful and at the same 

 time one of the most stupendous works ever exe- 

 cuted by men, is still in good preservation be- 

 tween Chulucanas, Guamani, and Sagique. On 

 the summit of the Andes, in excessively cold 

 spots, which could have no attraction but for the 

 inhabitants of Cuzco, the remains of great edi- 



* See vol. xiii, p. 243, and "259. 



