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fices are every where seen. I counted nine be- 

 tween the Paramo of Chulucanas and the vil- 

 lage of Guancabamba : they are called in the 

 country by the sounding title of palaces of the 

 Inca ; but it is probable, that the greater part 

 were built to facilitate the military communica- 

 tions between Peru and the kingdom of Quito. 



The city of Chulucanas appears to have been 

 placed on the slope of a hill, on the brink of a 

 small river, from which it was separated by 

 a wall. Two openings made in this wall cor- 

 respond with the two principal streets. The 

 houses, built of porphyry, are distributed into 

 eight quarters, formed by streets cutting each 

 other at right angles. Each quarter contains 

 twelve small habitations, so that there are ninety- 

 six in that part of the city, of which we give the 

 plan in the sixty-second plate. I prefer the 

 word habitation to that of house, because the 

 latter gives the idea of several apartments com- 

 municating together, and in the same enclosure ; 

 while the habitations of Chulucanas, like those of 

 Herculaneum, consist only of a single room, the 

 door of which probably opened into an inner 

 court. In the centre of the eight quarters, which 

 we have just described, are the remains of four 

 large buildings of an oblong form, and separated 

 by four small square buildings, occupying the 

 four corners. On the right of the river, which 

 bounds the city, we discover some very uncouth 



