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' felf five leagues, namely, to the valley of Caraballlo, 

 and to it belong the many large plantations in that 

 fpace ; chapels are therefore erected for celebrating 

 mafs on days of precept, that the people may perfoim 

 their duty without the fatigue and trouble of travel- 

 ling to Lima- Here are alfo two chapels of eafe, that 

 of St. Salvador in the parifh of Sr. Ann •, and that of 

 the orphans, in the Sagrario. There is alio in the 

 Cercado, one of the quarters of the tov/n, a parilh of 

 Indians, under the care of the Jefuits. 



The convents here are very numerous ; four Do- 

 minicans, viz. I.a Cafa grande, Recolleccion de la 

 Magdalena, the college of 9c. Thomas, appropriated 

 to literature, and Santa Rofa. Three of Francifcans, 

 Viz. Cafa graftde, Recoletos de nrueilra Senora de los 

 Angeles, or Guadalupe, and Los Defcalzos de San 

 . Diego, the latter is in the fuburb of San Lazaro. 

 Three of the order of Auguftin, namely, Cafa 

 grande ; the Serninary of San Ildefonfo, a literary 

 college ; and the noviciate at Nueftra Senora deGuia. 

 Three alfo belong to the order of Mercys namely, the 

 Cafa principal, the college of St. Pedro Nolafco, and 

 a Recolleccion, called Bethlehem. 



The Jefuits have fix colleges or houfes^ which 

 sire thofe of St. Paul, their principal college-, St. 

 Martin, a college for fecular ftudents St. An- 

 thony, a noviciate ; the houfe of poffefiion, or de- 

 famparados, under the invocation of Nuefira Senora 

 de los Dolores 5 a college in the Circado, where the 

 Indians are inftruded in the precepts of religion 

 and that of the Chacarilla, appointed for the exer- 

 cifes of St. Ignatius ; and accordingly all feculars on 

 their defire to perform them are admitted. They 

 are alio allowed the liberty of beginning when moil 

 convenient for themfelves, and are handfomely en- 

 tertained by the college during the eight days of their 

 continuance. But it mull be obferved, that of all 

 thefe convents, the Cafas grandes, are now the moft 



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