INDEX. 



483 



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Population of Peru, the different 



classes of, recapitulated, 4 



of Lima, 136 



Porto-lello named, on account of Its 

 morbid temperature, the sepul- 

 chre of the Spaniards, .. •' 124 



Potosi, mines of, their great pro- 

 du6tiveness, 132 



Premiums offered by the Academi- 

 cal Society of Lima, for disserta- 

 tions on the best modes of im- 

 proving the roads of Peru, . . 366 



Puhlications, periodical, account 

 of, in Peru, 357 



Puchero de Jlores, or Peruvian nose- 

 gay, described, 230 



Pyramids of stone, near the lake 

 Yauricocha, conjectured to be the 

 remnants of a bridge anciently 

 erected for the passage of the 

 Yncas, 425 



Q 



Quartillo, a new coin introduced 



at Lima, Il6 



Quechua tongue, or general lan- 

 guage of the Peruvian 

 Indians before the con- 

 quest, has not been duly 

 investigated, . . . . 18 

 — — — policy of the Spaniards in 



extinguishing that idiom, .. .. l68 

 Quicksilver mine of Huancavclica, 



described, 66 



Quipos, still employed by the In- 

 dian shepherds, 17 



R 



Recefisions made at Lima since the 

 conquest, l'J5 



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Roads interse6ting the Cordillera of 



the Andes, cut by the Yncas, 15 



ancient one fabricated in their 



time, vestiges of, . . . . 455 



in Peru, highly dangerous, 364 



— — a spacious one, recently 

 opened in the interior of 

 Peru, described, . . . . 344 



another, by the bishop of 



Quito, .. 308 



Royal Audience, or high court of 



justice, its establishment in Lima, 184 

 Rural operations, in Peru, by whom 

 performed, 4 



S 



Salto de Aguirre, a dangerous pass, 

 traditions of the Indians relative 

 to the, 4\g 



Santa Fe, periodical work publish- 

 ed at, 36i 



Semanario Critico (vi'eekly critic), 

 a work published in Lima, ac- 

 count of, 360 



Sepulchres, ancient Peruvian, . . 16 



Silk-worm, a new and extraordi- 

 nary species of, discovered, . . 346 



Skeletons, monstrous, discovered in 

 Peru, 53 



Small Pox, unknown in Peru until 

 1588, its devastations among the 

 Indian tribes, 121 



Sobreviela, Father, the motives of 

 his peregrination by the river 

 Huallaga, into the remote terri- 

 tories of Peru, 413 



Society, economical, established at 

 Quito, . . ; 362 



Soothsayers, Indian, 26I 



Spanish authors in general, who 

 3 a 2 have 



