VOYAGE 



TO 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



BOOK VII. 



Account of our Journey to Lima ^ isoith a De-^ 

 fcription of the Towns and Settlements 

 on the Roady and of the City ofhiUK. 



C H A P. I. 



Journey from Quito to Truxillo* 



TH E accidents to which human eilterprizes 

 and attempts are generally expofed, diredl, 

 with an inconftarit, but wonderful harmo- 

 ny, the feries of our adirions and adventures, and in^ 

 troduce among them a great variety of alterations 

 and changes. It is this variety, which, in vegetation 

 embellifhes nature, and equally difplays the glory 

 and wifdom of the fupreme creator in the political 

 and rational world \ where we admire the furprizing 

 diverfity of events, the infinity of human aftions, and 

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