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walls*, wherever he saw heaps of rubbish, or 
accidental elevations of the ground. His plan 
exhibits neither the real form of the apartments, 
nor the four great outer doors, which must ne- 
cessarily have existed from the time when the 
edifice was built. 
We have already observed, that the elevated 
plain of Quito extends itself between the double 
ridge'l" of the Cordillera of the Andes ; and is 
separated from the plain of Llactacunga and 
Hambato by the heights of Chisinche and Tio- 
pullo, which, like a dyke, extend crossways 
from the eastern to the western ridge, or from 
the basaltic rocks of Ruminnahui toward the 
slender pyramids of the ancient volcano of Ilinis- 
sa. From the top of this dyke, which divides its 
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waters between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 
we discover, in an immense plain covered with 
pumice stone, the Panecillo of Callo, and the 
ruins of the house of the Inca Huayna Capac. 
The Panecillo, or sugar-loaf, is a conic hillock, 
about fourscore metres high, covered with small 
bushes of molina, spermacoce, and cactus. The 
natives are persuaded that this hillock, which 
resembles a bell, and is perfectly regular in its 
figure, is a tumulus, or one of those numerous 
^ Historical Journey to South America, vol, 1, p.387, pi. 18. 
t See vol. 13, p, 231, and my Collection of Astronomical 
Observations, vol. 1, p. 309. 
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