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PERU AS IT IS:
A RESIDENCE IN LIMA, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE PERUVIAN REPUBLIC, COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THAT COUNTRY.
BY ARCHIBALD SMITH, M.D.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1839.
LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
TO
SIR ALEXANDER CRICHTON, M.D. F.R.S.
PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, AND TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE; KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDERS OF ST. WLADIMIR AND ST. ANNE, KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE RED EAGLE OF PRUSSIA, ETC.
the following account of Peru, a country which, it is probable, the Author never would have visited but for his very kind and disinterested patronage, is most gratefully dedicated by
Archibald Smith.