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without the town. He has covered with buildings two or- 

 chards, having an extent of a hundred and twenty toises each, 

 and has nearly completed a third range of edifices. These 

 new stru61:ures comprehend a convent, two hundred and 

 seven doors fronting the street, and four lanes containing 

 fifty-three dwellings. The Pampa-de-Lara, the buildings 

 surrounding the orange groves, those on the road leading to 

 the promenade of the bare -footed friars, part of the Ventu- 

 rosa, &c. are all of modern structure. 



Lima, in its present state, contains two hundred and nine 

 quadras, or squares of buildings, which comprise eight thousand 

 two hundred and twenty-two doors of dwelling-houses and 

 shops, and branch out into three hundred and fifty-five streets. 

 For the convenience of the police, and for the maintenance of 

 good order among the inhabitants, the city is divided into four 

 quarters, which are again subdivided into thirty-five distridls, in 

 each of which there is an alcaid, chosen from among the indivi- 

 duals of the most distinguished rank. 



The houses are three thousand nine hundred and forty-one 

 in number. Of these, nine hundred and sixty-nine are holden 

 in mortmain ; and in this number the one hundred and fifty- 

 seven belonging to the religious communities are compre- 

 hended. On this head it has been observed by a celebrated 

 national writer, Don Joseph Borda, that " the laws of South 

 America stri6tly prohibit the alienation of the funds in mort- 

 rrtain ; but, in consequence of this prohibition, the greater 

 part of these funds are ecclesiastical : insomuch, that it is a 

 rare occurrence to find a house or tenement, which, if it do 

 not belong entirely to the church, is not burthened with a 

 fine, or seignoral rent." 



With 



