%6, A VOYAGE TO Book VII. 



perature of the air healthy and regular. For though 

 it is not without a fenfibie difference in the feafons, 

 jet the cold of the winter, and the heats of fummer 

 are both eafily fupportable. 



In proceeding on our journey from Guarmey we 

 Inet with a great many remains of the edifices of the 

 Yncas. Some, were the walls of palaces others, as 

 it were large dykes, by the fides of fpacious high- 

 ways and others fortreiles, or caftles, preperly fi- 

 tuated for checking the inroads of enemies. One of 

 the latter monuments flands about 2 or 3 leagues 

 North of Pativirca, not far from a river. It is the 

 ruins of a fort, and fituated on the top of an emi- 

 nence at a fmall diftance from the fea ; but the ve- 

 ftiges only of the walls are now remaining. 



From Guaura we came to the town of Chancay ; 

 and though the diflance between this is reckoned 

 only twelve leagues, we concluded, by the time we 

 were travelling it to be at lead fourteen. From an 

 obfervation we found its latitude 11° 33' 47^' S. 

 The town confifls of about 300 houfes, and Indian 

 huts ; is very populous, and among other inha- 

 bitants can boafl of many Spanifh families, and 

 fome of diftinguidied rank. Befides its parifh 

 church, here is a convent of the order of St. Francis, 

 and an hofpital chiefly fupported by the benevolence 

 of the inhabitants. It is the capital of the jurifdic- 

 tion of its name, and belongs to that of Guaura, 

 The Corregidor, whofe ufual refidence is at Chan- 

 cay, appoints a deputy for Guaura. The adjacent 

 country is naturally very fertile, and every where ; 

 well v/atered by canals cut from the river PalTamayo, 

 which runs about a league and a half to the Squthr 

 ward of the town. Thefe parts are every wh^re 

 fmved v/ith maize, for the purpofe of fattening hogs, 

 in which article is carried on a very confiderable trade ^ 

 the city of Lima being furnifhed from hence. 



We left Chancay the lyth, and after travelling 



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