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Identifier: twoyearsinperuwi01hutc (find matches)
Title: Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph, b. 1820
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Low, (and) Searle
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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aordinary dimensions.—Made up ofsmall sun-dried bricks.—Masses dislodged by earthquake.—Nonotice of these things by Rivero.—Huaca de la Campana(Marengo, or Arambolu).—Legend about this mound.—Charac-teristic features of architecture.—Filled up with earth.—Fortress entitled San Miguel (Huatillee).—Adjacent temple.—Wedge-shaped walls.—Fortresses to protect old city andburial-ground.—Ancient temple of Delphic Oracle Rimac. There are few portions of Peru wliicli I havevisited, that seem to me more worthv of a search-ing exploration than the valley of Huatica, wheretoI am about to introduce my readers. What Imean by exploration is such a one as that recentlyconducted by Mr. Smith for the Daily Teleg7^aj)h,in Assyria, amongst the ruins of Babylonia andMosul, as well as what has been done by Dr.Henry Schlicmann in Priams Troy. In one ofthe letters of Mr. Smith, describing his visit toBabylon, he says, The first mounds I exa- • Vide Dailfj Tricgraph, June 25th, 1873.
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PLAN OF JIUATICA VAI.hKV. \roI. I ;>. 271. niAi. Mil.) i:i;i,i..\ vista. 27\ niiiKHl \v(M*() those ol the ruins called nowJiabil, hut sonuliincs Miyolliba; it is th(3 mostiiorMuMMi set of mounds. Thesu ruins consistof ono vast ohlun^ mound, suTToundcd hy somosmaller mouiuls, and the ruins ol a wall wliichhad onco enclosed its structure. Quite similarto Avliat Ave find in tlu* lluatica valley, as willap()ear by the accompanying illustrations. From Calliio our way lies through )klla Vista,situated about a mile to the cast, and on the roadto Lima. It is the only stopping-station of thetrain between these two cities on the upwardjourney; but, on the downward, all the trains haltat the back of Santa Eosa church, wherebyeasier communication can be had with many partsof Callao, and from where the train starts for thePoint (LaPunta). Bella Vista was founded in 1747—the year afterthe great earthquake—by the then Viceroy, Condede Superunda. It certainly deserves the name, onaccount of th

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