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are high enough for the passage of a man 
seated in a palanquin, and carried on the 
shoulders of the servants. The niches* 
formed in the inner walls are indicated in 
the plan. 
The principal view in this work being to pre- 
sent an exact idea of the state of the arts among 
the civilized nations of America, we have pre- 
ferred giving a description of the ruins of the 
house of the Inca at Cannar as they appeared in 
1739. Several walls have been thrown down 
since that period ; and I had great difficulty in 
finding the whole of the divisions, which are 
traced in the plan of M. de la Condamine. 
II. The ruins of the ancient city of Chulucanas 
are very remarkable, on account of the extreme 
regularity of the streets and buildings. We find 
these ruins on the ridge of the Cordilleras, at 
fourteen hundred toises height, in the Paramo of 
Chulucanas, between the Indian villages of Aya- 
vaca and Guaneabamba. The hig^h road of the 
Inca, one of the most useful and at the same 
time one of the most stupendous works ever exe- 
cuted by men, is still in good preservation be- 
tween Chulucanas, Guamani, and Sagique. On 
the summit of the Andes, in excessively cold 
spots, which could have no attraction but for the 
inhabitants of Cuzco, the remains of great edi- 
* See vol. xiii, p. 24S, and 259. 
