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of PorCo and Cuzco, swell the alpine lake of Titicaca* 

 Notwithstanding these arbitrary divisions, the associations 

 of the Indians who inhabit the banks of that lake, and the 

 cold regions of Oruro, La Paz, and Charcas, are oftener 

 directed towards Cuzco, the centre of the ancient grandeur 

 of the empire of the Incas, than towards the plains of Buenos 

 Ayres. The table-land of Tiahuanacu, where the Inca 

 Mata-Capac discovered buildings and gigantic statues, of 

 which the origin extended back beyond the foundation of 

 Cuzco, has been detached from Peru. To attempt thus to 

 efface the historical remembrances of nations, is to call 

 Greece by the name of the banks of the lake Copais. It is 

 probable that in the numerous confederations of states 

 which are forming in our days, the lines of demarkation 

 will not be solely regulated by the course of the waters, but 

 that in fixing them the moral interests of nations will at the 

 same time be consulted. The partition of Upper Peru must 

 be regretted by all who know how to appreciate the import- 

 ance of the native population on the table-lands of the 

 Andes. If a line be drawn from the southern extremity of 

 the province of Maynas, or the banks of the Guallaga, to 

 the confluence of the Apurimac and the Beni (which con- 

 fluence gives birth to the Rio Ucayale), and thence to the 

 westward of the Rio Viicabamba, and the table-land of 

 Paucartambo, towards the point where the south-east fron- 

 tier cuts the Rio Ynambari, it will divide Peru into two 

 unequal parts j one (of 26,220 square leagues), is the centre 

 of the civilized population, the other (of 15,200 square 

 leagues), is wild, and almost entirely uninhabited. 



Buenos Ayres. The editors of the excellent periodical 

 work entitled El Somanario (vol. i, p. Ill), justly observe, 

 that even on the banks of La Plata no one knows the real 

 limits of the ancient viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres. Between 

 the Parana and the Rio Paraguay, between the sources of the 



