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on the first alarm of an unforeseen attack. In 

 the state of Kentucky we equally observe, near 

 ancient fortifications of an oval form, very lofty 

 tumuli, containing human bones, and covered 

 with trees, which Mr. Cutter supposes to be a 

 thousand years old*. 



The Inca's house is a little to the south-west 

 of the Panecillo, three leagues distant from the 

 crater of Cotopaxi, and about ten leagues to the 

 south of the city of Quito. This edifice forms a 

 square, each side of which is thirty metres long ; 

 four great outer doors are still distinguishable, 

 and eight apartments, three of which are in good 

 preservation. The walls are nearly five metres 

 high and one thick. The doors, similar to those 

 of the Egyptian temples ; the niches, eighteen 

 in number in each apartment, distributed with 

 the greatest symmetry ; the cylinders for the 

 suspension of warlike weapons ; the cut of the 

 stones, the outer side of which is convex, and 

 carved obliquely, all remind us of the edifice at 

 Cannar, which is represented in the twentieth 

 plate. I saw nothing at Callo of what Ulloa 

 calls grandeur and majesty : but what appears 

 to me much more interesting is the uniformity 

 of construction, which is observed in all the 

 Peruvian monuments. It is impossible to exa- 

 mine attentively a single edifice of the time of 



* Carey's Pocket Atlas of the United States, 1796, p. 101. 



