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their fair complexions. The Callao road is 

 straight and broad^ and the distance to Lima 

 six miles. Halfway there is a chapel at which 

 the old and new viceroys used to meet when 

 they were changed^ and the successor arrived 

 in the country. On each side^ as we advanced^ 

 remains of villas^ farms^ and gardens were to 

 be seen^ which^ from the frequent revolutions 

 in this country have long been abandoned; 

 and the surrounding enclosures, which once 

 yielded all sorts of fruit and grain in abund- 

 ance, now present nothing but the appearance 

 of a desolate waste of sand. Clumps of aloes 

 and the olive are found growing by the road- 

 side, and the last mile runs between a straight 

 avenue of tall poplars, with walks and stone 

 benches on each side, leading directly into the 

 town through a handsome gate. This gate 

 admits the traveller within a high, single wall. 



