g 6 Peruvian Antiquities. [January, 
Dr. Hutchinson, in two days, from these burial grounds 
gathered 384 skulls, which, with specimens of pottery, he 
presented to Professor Agassiz, and he to the Cambridge 
University, near Boston. 
Between the teeth he found pieces of copper, as if for the 
Charon obolus, and one or two had plates of copper on their 
heads. 
Crossing the brow of the hill, entering Chancay, and stretch- 
ing towards the sea, are the remains of a 6 feet adobe wall. 
On the face of this hill, pointing to the line of the railway 
from Ancon, are two stone ditches, perfectly parallel and 
symmetrical, about 100 yards apart, and running from 
bottom to top to a height of about 300 yards. Between 
these are other lines of stones displaced, perhaps the ruins 
of some old terraces. All about this place, at the base of 
the hill, looking towards Chancay, as well as on the side in 
front of the sea, is full of graves ; some are built up with 
stone walls, others lined inside with mud-bricks, of no forma- 
tion more than a heap of clay and water moulded up in the 
hands and dried in the sun. Over the hills of Chancay are 
quantities of small stones of different geological formation 
from the rock there. 
Dr. Hutchinson writes, under date of October 30, 1872, 
in an article to the Callao and Lima “ Gazette,” now the 
South Pacific “Times:” “lam come to the conclusion 
that Chancay is a great city of the dead, or has been an 
immense ossuary of Peru ; for go where you will, on moun- 
tain top or level plain, or by the sea side, you meet at every 
turn skulls and bones of all descriptions.” 
Lima, the capital of Peru, is situated seven miles inland 
from Callao. Nine miles on the sea shore “up south,” is 
the city of Chorillos, the Long Branch of Peru. A railway 
connects Lima with these two cities, forming with the coast 
nearly a right angled triangle. This triangular ground is 
known as the Huatica Valley, and is an extensive ruin. 
Between Callao and Magdalena, four miles distant, there are 
seventeen mounds called “ huacas,” although they present 
more the form of fortresses, residences, or castles, than 
burying ground. It is difficult to make out anything but 
fragments of walls, as the ground is mostly under cultivation. 
However, at various points, one can see that a triple wall 
surrounded the ancient city. These walls are respectively 
one yard, two yards, and three yards in thickness, being in 
some parts of their relics from fifteen to twenty feet high. 
To the east of these is the enormous mound called Huaca 
of Pando ; and to the west, with the distance of about half 
