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efFe6l, that the governor, the marquis of Mena-Hermosa, 

 was obhged to draw a line of circumvallation, by the con- 

 stru6lion of several small forts at the edge of the mountain, 

 and to assign them limits between the Spaniard and the bar- 

 barian. 



Vitoc remaining in the possession of the latter, Tarma 

 was consequently deprived of its granary, of the want of 

 which it soon became sensible. The Indian and the mestizo 

 were condemned to endure the poverty to which they were 

 reduced by the loss of Vitoc. The frosts, which in repeated 

 instances destroyed the seeds planted in the more elevated 

 grounds, revived both their grief, and the recolle6lion of 

 the mountainous territory free from such calamities ; but the 

 order not to pass the line of the fortifications was stri6lly en- 

 forced ; the subje£l was exposed to the risk of being con- 

 sidered as a traitor ; and the glad mom.ent was not yet ar- 

 rived, when the administrator was to break these chains, 

 so perplexing to the Spaniard, and so galling to his 

 valour. 



Don Juan Maria de Galves, intendant of the province of 

 Tarma, who, in imitation of the pretors of ancient Rome, 

 was desirous to signalize his government by some monument 

 by which its remembrance should be transmitted to future 

 ages, chose, instead of pyramids and inscriptions, the off- 

 spring of vanity, to restore to Tarma the fruitful Vitoc. His 

 ardent spirit, and profound discernment, disdained the accu- 

 mulated difficulties, either real or imaginary, which presented 

 themselves to the view of the ordinary observer. To a bene- 

 ficent hand resources are never wanting, to give a successful 

 issue to an enterprize, without burdening the commonweal, 



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