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fices are every where seen. I counted nine be- 
tween the Paramo of Chulucanas and the vil- 
lage of Giiancabamba : they are called in the 
country by the sounding title of palaces of the 
Inca ; but it is probable, that the greater part 
were built to facilitate the military communica- 
tions between Peru and the kingdom of Quito. 
The city of Chulucanas appears to have been 
placed on the slope of a hill, on the brink of a 
small river, from which it was separated by 
a wall. Two openings made in this wall cor- 
respond with the two principal streets. The 
houses, built of porphyry, are distributed into 
eight quarters, formed by streets cutting each 
other at right angles. Each quarter contains 
twelve small habitations, so that there are ninetv- 
six in that part of the city, of which we give the 
plan in the sixty-second plate. I prefer the 
word habitation to that of house, because the 
latter gives the idea of several apartments com- 
municating together, and in the same enclosure ; 
while the habitations of Chulucanas, like those of 
Herculaneum, consist only of a single room, the 
door of which probably opened into an inner 
court. In the centre of the eight quarters, which 
we have just described, are the remains of four 
large buildings of an oblong form, and separated 
by four small square buildings, occupying the 
four corners. On the right of the river, which 
bounds the city, we discover some very uncouth 
