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rcumber of persons, capable of bearing arms, to be found in 

 Lima, ordered a new enrolment of the population to be drawn 

 tip in 1700. It afforded a produ 61 of thirty-seven thousand 

 'two hundred and fifty-nine inhabitants, including the religious 

 votaries of both sexes, Indians, slaves, &c> We were some- 

 what surprized to find, in the manuscript work above referred 

 to, in which all the details of this enumeration are given, 

 that either through the inexa(Stitude or insincerity of many 

 individuals, there was the same concealment as in 1600*. 

 We shall now proceed to a short comparison between this 

 statement and the one we are about to publish. 



Lima has, since that time, been augmented in its extent^ 

 its population, and its resources ; with the exception, how- 

 ever, that in certain classes there has been a diminution. For 

 instance, no less than three thousand eight hundred and sixty 

 nuns, and their attendants, were then immured in cloisters. 

 The Monastery of the Incarnation alone contained eight hun- 

 dred and twenty-seven souls, including four hundred and 

 thirty-four domestics. That of Santa Clara reckoned six 

 hundred and thirty, in which number one hundred and 

 seventy-two nuns of the black veil were comprehended. In 

 the convent of La Concepcion there were one thousand and 

 forty-one inmates, the female attendants alone amounting to 

 Eve hundred and sixty-one. When these sums are compared 



* However this concealnaent may have tended to diminish the designated amount 

 ■of the population, there can be no doubt of an exaggeration on the part of Do6tor 

 Montalbo, when, in his work entitled El Sol del Neuvo Mundo (the Sun of the New 

 World), written in 1683, he assigned to Lima a population of upwards of eighty 

 thousand ^ouls. 



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