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DESCRIPTION OF 



but feel for him ; for it was owing to his good 

 qualities that he lost his life. 



While the peons were arranging their cargoes, 

 and regretting the loss of their mules, I went up 

 to visit the Inca^s bridge, which was very near to 

 where we crossed, a branch of the river Los Or- 

 cones running through it. My object was to as- 

 certain the temperature of the hot springs — there 

 are three hot and one cold. After crossing over 

 the bridge, they lie a little up to the left. The two 

 hottest were of equal temperature, 9P ; the next, 

 which is the largest, was 83*^ ; and the cold one 

 66°. I took samples of 83*^ and 91*".^ It is a very 

 singular circumstance, that the cold spring should 

 be between the two hottest. They are all three 

 of the same size, about a foot or fifteen inches 

 in diameter, and two feet deep, but not more 

 than three feet apart from each other. The 

 largest is about four yards distant from the rest, 

 about two feet in diameter, and of the same 

 depth. The whole surface of the ground where 

 they overflow was incrustated with a mineral 



* For the Analysis of this water see the Appendix. 



