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ABORIGINES. 



they introduced are to be seen at Cuzco, and 

 Quito^ and in many other places of less note. 

 The Inca route from Quito to Cuzco was 500 

 leagues in lengthy and another was used of the 

 same extent^ nearer to the sea, in the low 

 country, besides many other roads traversing 

 the empire in all directions. These are de- 

 scribed to be terraces of earth, forty feet broad, 

 filling up the valleys, and making a level way. 

 Along these roads were to be seen, at certain 

 intervals, arsenals, hospices open at all times 

 to travellers, fortresses, and temples. 



The Indians who live beyond Peru, to the 

 eastward of the Andes, though in some places 

 they submitted to the Jesuits, were never tho- 

 roughly reclaimed, whilst the greater number 

 of the tribes within the empire of Brazil, except 

 a few on the banks of the river Amazon, are as 

 savage as the day America was first discovered. 



