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apiece, fifteen Foot broad, and fix or feven Foot thick. There were likewife found 

 the Statues of certain Men excellently Carv'd and Wrought, of a Gigantick ftaturc 

 or bignefs, and likewife vefted in foreign and ftrange Habits, not at all us'd, nor 

 ever known to have been us'd by the Peruvians themfelves, or by any other of the 



Natives of America. 



7. Kueftra Sennora de la Pa^, or Our Lady of Peace, otherwife call'd Pueblo NueVo : 

 It is but a fmall Town, yet pleafantly feated upon the Banks of a River in a fair and 

 fruitful Plain, full of Springs, Fruit-Trees, SaVanas, and Fields of Mai^ having 

 Mountains on either fide : It lieth almoft in the middle of the Province Cbuquinabo, 

 fourteen Leagues diftant from Qufco, and as many from Potofi. The Province Cku- 

 quinabo it felf (which in the Peruvian Tongue fignifies Inheritance of Gold) hath many 

 rich Gold-Mines, good Salt-pits, and a temperate Climate, except from the begin- 

 ning of December till March, in which time the continual Rains caufe Feavers and 

 Agues. The Inhabitants being very poor People, us'd to go naked in the Sum- 



mer Seafon. 



8. CopaVana, two and twenty Leagues beyond Lopo^: It is onely inhabited by 

 Peruvians - amongft whom an Image of the Virgin Mary, long fincc erefted there, 

 hath been ever in great veneration, efpecially by reafon of a Tradition of a great 

 Miracle there performed : for the Spaniards affirm, That Johannes Anachoreta going 

 a Journey of feveral Weeks from home, plac'd a lighted Candle before the Image, 

 which during the time of his abfence did not at all diminish. 



An Accident which fell out in this Countrey is very remarkable, vi%. The 

 A»p*»g*. Ground of an old Village call'd Angoanga, then inhabited by eminent Necroman- 

 cers, began on a fudden to fwell, and the Earth to run like a broken Wave two 

 Leagues, overwhelming the Houfes in Sand, and filling up a neighboring Lake. 

 Tke like in Eieht vears before this terrible Earthquake here, there hapned in the County of 

 in Engimi. Hereford in England almoft the fame kind of prodigious Motion : tor not far from 

 the Town Ledborough, arofe Marcely Hill to an exceeding heighth, and moving along 

 bury'd all whate're it met with, after which manner it continued for the fpace of 

 three days, to the great terror of all that beheld it. 



9. Qnlane . 10. Acqs 5 11. Pomata, and fome others, all of them good Towns, 

 but not fo confiderable as thofe other. 



m^\^t Concerning the Roads or High-ways,it may well be faid,That none of the feven 

 made by tb c Wonders of the World can compare with any one of them ^neither was the Way that 

 Jppius Claudius made from %ome to Brundufium, upon the repairing of which the Em* 

 pcrors Julius and Augujlus fpent great fums of Money, fit to ftand in competition 

 with the Roads made by the Ingas in Peru : for who cannot but admire at the confi- 

 deration of fo many Valleys fill'd with Mountains, the hardeft Rocks cut afunder, 

 Moors damm'd up, great Stone Bridges laid over fwift gliding Streams, and 

 through vaft Wilderneifes a Way made of twenty Foot broad, inclos'd in high 

 Walls, extending from Quito to Cbilo, a thoufand Leagues, and at the end of every 

 ten Leagues brave Houfes or Magazines, ftor'd with Bowes, Arrows, Halberds, 

 Axes, Clubs, Clothes, and Provifion for twenty or thirty thoufand Men. Some 

 relate, that GuainacaVa, when he returned Vi&or from the conquer'd Countrey 

 Quito, fuffcr'd great Inconveniences on the pathlefs Mountains, and thereupon 

 Commanded his Subje&s to make the fore-mention'd Way. But it is more probable, 

 that this Mafter-piece was not the work of one Inga, efpecially fincc befides the 

 Way from Q?ili to Quito there leads another through the Mountains over the Plains 

 rom Cufco to Quito, forty Foot broad, and five hundred Leagues 



Qufco to Quito, forty 

 within two Walls. 



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