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Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 2 of 2)

Note 45 — THE PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE INCA ATAHUALLPA: AND THE FIRST VIEW OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FROM THE CREST OF THE ANDES.

Elizabeth Juliana Sabine translation

p. 272.—“Artificial roads covered with cemented gravel.”

Compare Velasco, Historia de Quito, 1844, T. i. p. 126-128, and Prescott, Hist. of the Conquest of Peru, Vol. i. p. 157.

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