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YNGA-CHUNGANA, 
NEAR CANNAR. 
PLATE XIX. 
To the north of the ruins of Cannar rises a 
chain of hills, the slope of which toward the 
house of the Inca is very gentle, while it is 
almost perpendicular on the side of the valley of 
Gulan. According to the traditions among the 
natives, this hill formed part of the gardens, that 
surrounded the ancient Peruvian fortress. We 
here found, as near the ravine of the Sun^ a great 
number of small pathways cut on the slope of a 
rock, which is scarcely covered with vegetable 
mould. 
Near Mexico, in the gardens of Chapoltepec, 
the European traveller views with melancholy 
feeling cypress trees *, the trunks of which are 
more than sixteen metres in circumference ; and 
^ Cupressiis disticha, L. 
