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and small ; and the family is reduced to the Colonel and his lady, (at 

 present absent,) and the boys. 



The climate of Huanuco is very equable and very salubrious. There 

 are no cases of affection of the chest which commence here ; on the 

 contrary, people with diseases caused by the inclemency of the weather 

 about Cerro Pasco come to Huanuco to be cured. Dysentery and 

 tabardillo are the commonest diseases; and I see many people (particu- 

 larly women) with goitre. I saw a woman who had one that seemed 

 to arise under each ear and encircle the throat like an inflated life-pre- 

 server. The affection is said to be owing to the impurity of the water, 

 which is not fit to drink unless filtered. The lower class of people do 

 not attend to this, and thus the disease is more general with them than 

 with the higher classes. It is disagreeable to walk out in the middle of 

 the day, on account of a strong northerly wind, which sets in at this 

 season about noon, and lasts till dark, raising clouds of dust. The 

 mornings and evenings are very pleasant, though the sun is hot for an 

 hour or two before the breeze sets in. The height of Huanuco above 

 the level of the sea is, by boiling point, five thousand nine hundred and 

 forty-six feet. 



There is a college with about twenty-two "internal," and eighty day- 

 scholars. Its income, derived from lands formerly belonging to con- 

 vents, is seven thousand and five hundred dollars yearly. It has a fine 

 set of chemical and other philosophical apparatus, with one thousand 

 specimens of European minerals. These things were purchased in 

 Europe, at a cost of five thousand dollars ; and the country owes them 

 to the zeal for learning and exertions of Don Mariano Eduardo de 

 Rivero, formerly prefect of the department, director general of the 

 mines, and now consul general to the Netherlands, where he is said to 

 be preparing a voluminous work on the antiquities of Peru. As I shall 

 probably not have occasion to refer to him again, I must in this place 

 express my sense of gratitude for the information I have received from 

 his most valuable publication, "The Memorial of Natural Sciences, and 

 of National and Foreign Industry," edited by himself and Don Nicolas 

 Pierola, the modest and learned director of the museum at Lima. The 

 Department of Junin owes much to its former prefect. He has founded 

 schools, improved roads, built cemeteries, and, in short, whatever good 

 thing I noticed on my route might generally be traced back to Rivero. 



July 18. — I called on the sub-prefect of the province, and delivered 

 an official letter from the prefect of the department, whom I had visited 

 at Cerro Pasco. This gentleman's name is Maldonado. He received 

 me courteously, and promised me any assistance I might stand in need 



