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figure but at the entrance of the door are plane. 

 But there is a vifible inequality, both in the ftones 

 and in their courfes ; which gives a more finguiar air 

 to the work; for a fmall ftone is iriimediately fol- 

 lowed by one large and ill fquared 5 and that above^ 

 is made to fit the inequalities of the other two, and 

 at the fame time fill up all the interftices between the 

 prqjedions and irregularity of their faces ; and this ia 

 liich perfediwn, that, whatfoever way they are viewed, 

 all parts appear joined with the famie exadnefs. The 

 height of thefe walls is about two toifes and a half, 

 and about three or four feet in thicknefs. The doors 

 are about two toifes high, and their breadth at the 

 bottom about three or four feet but runs narrowing 

 upwards, where the aperture is only two feet and ^ 

 half. The doors of the palaces, where the yncas 

 refided, were made of fuch a height, to allow room 

 for the chairs in which the monarch was carried on 

 men's flioulders into his apartment, the only plac^ 

 in which his feet touched the ground. It is not; 

 known whether this or the other palaces of the 

 yncas had any ftories, nor how they were roofed : 

 for thofe we examined were either open, or had been 

 roofed by the Spaniards: But it is highly probable 

 that they covered them with boards, in the form of 

 a terrace, that is, fupported by beams laid acrofs : 

 for in the walls there is nothing near the ground thae 

 affords room for a conjedlure, that they ever fup- 

 / ported any roofs : on this horizontal roof they con- 

 trived fome flope for carrying off the waters. The 

 reafon of contrad:ing their doors at the top was, thac 

 the lintel might be of one ftone ; for they had no idea 

 either of arches or of key-ftones, as may be conclud- 

 ed from no fuch works occurring among all their 

 edifices. 



About fifty toifes north of this palace, fronting 

 its entrance^, is a mountain, the more, finguiar as 



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