To the Reader. 



Authors do no better agree : But Monfieur Frezier 

 produces feveral lnftances of the Father's Miftakes : 

 4 The Mouth of the Bay of La Conception ( fays he ) 

 c is made too wide in Feuillees Plan by almoft the 

 4 Half; the Streets of Callao are all confounded ; 

 4 and the Baftion of S. Lewis hath a defencelefs 

 4 Face, tho* there is a Line of Defence fichante up- 

 4 on the Spot. Thefe laft Faults are not, how- 

 4 ever, to be imputed to him : The Addition of 

 4 feveral Works, which were never inferted in 

 4 any other Defign than that of the late Monfieur 



* Roffemin^ Engineer of the Place, (hews, that they 

 4 are not his, but the Copyer*s, from whom I had 

 f alfo the fame Plan and the Defigns. In that of 

 4 the Road of Callao, he makes the Town, which 

 4 doth not really exceed 6oo Toifes, as big as the 

 4 Ifle of S. Laurence, which is almoft 4000 Toifes. 

 4 Laftly, he himfelf owns, that in his. Plan of 

 * 4 Lima, the Quarter calfd Malambo falls fhort of 

 4 a fixth Part, whereas that Quarter makes at leaft 

 4 a fixth Part of the Town ; that of Cercado is 

 4 placed without the Inclofure, tho* it is really 

 4 within it ; and he reckons the Baftions but 



4 when there are 34. Not to mention other Plans^ 

 4 whofe Imperfe£Hons are of lefs Confequence. 

 4 Moreover, that Father places Arica and T/a under 



* the fame Meridian,within eight Seconds of Time > 

 4 or two Minutes of a Degree ; whereas I know by 



* my own Gbfervatio% that thofe Ports, which are 



4 about 



