m\ the first alarm of an unforeseen attack. In 
the state of Kentucky we equally observe^ near 
ancient fortifications of an oval form, very lofty 
tumuli, containing human bones, and covered 
with trees, which Mr. Cutter supposes to be a 
thousand years old*. 
The Inca’s house is a little to the south-west 
of the Panecillo, three leagues distant from the 
crater of Cotopaxi, and about ten leagues to the 
south of the city of Quito. This edifice forms a 
square, each side of which is thirty metres long ; 
four great outer doors are still distinguishable, 
and eight apartments, three of which are in good 
preservation. The walls are nearly five metres 
high and one thick. The doors, similar to those 
of the Egyptian temples ; the niches, eighteen 
in number in each apartment, distributed with 
the greatest symmetry ; the cylinders for the 
suspension of , warlike weapons ; the cut of the 
stones, the outer side of which is convex, and 
carved obliquely, all remind us of the edifice at 
Cannar, which is represented in the twentieth 
plate. I saw nothing at Callo of what Ulioa 
calls grandeur and majesty : but what appears 
to me much more interesting is the uniformity 
of construction, which is observed in all the 
Peruvian monuments. It is impossible to exa- 
mine attentively a single edifice of the time of 
^ Carey’s Pocket Atlas of the United States, 1796, p. 101, 
