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CAllACCAS. 



preme administrative and judicial tribunal ; 

 of an Archbishop ; a Chapter ; a tribunal of 

 the Inquisition (abolished by the present 

 government,) and a University. It has 

 somewhat of a triangular shape, and is about 

 two thousand toises long on each side. Like 

 all other towns in the New World, its streets 

 are drawn at right angles, and are rather 

 wide. Being built on an unequal surface, 

 whatever Caraccas wants in regularity, it 

 gains in picturesque effect. Many of the 

 houses have terraced roofs, others are cover- 

 ed with bent tiles ; there are many that have 

 only a ground-floor ; the rest have but one 

 story more. They are built either of brick or 

 earth well pounded, and covered with stuc- 

 co, — of an architecture sufficiently solid, ele- 

 gant, and adapted to the climate. Many 

 of them have gardens in their rear, which 

 is the reason that this town has an extent 

 equal to an European one that would con- 

 tain a hundred thousand persons. Four 



