. A sketcher's tour round the world. ve, however, on acloser inspection, as many of the buildings are of adobie, orunbumt bricks (so-called from the Arabic word), and someof the ornaments and urns, where broken, show that they areonly fremes of wicker-work covered with plaster. Thestreets are at right angles, but have few other pretensionsto regularity. They look oriental, and put me much inmind of some of the streets in Grand Cairo, the houseshaving projecting windows of lattice-work as in the buildings are flat-roofed, and some of the old ones,built by the Spanish grandees, are hand
. A sketcher's tour round the world. ve, however, on acloser inspection, as many of the buildings are of adobie, orunbumt bricks (so-called from the Arabic word), and someof the ornaments and urns, where broken, show that they areonly fremes of wicker-work covered with plaster. Thestreets are at right angles, but have few other pretensionsto regularity. They look oriental, and put me much inmind of some of the streets in Grand Cairo, the houseshaving projecting windows of lattice-work as in the buildings are flat-roofed, and some of the old ones,built by the Spanish grandees, are handsomely ornamenliedwith carved stonework; but Lima has declined fearfullyfrom its former magnificence. Liberty seems to have ruinedthese countries, and of all governments that of a republicseems least adapted to them. They are always fighting andquarrelling, and the six republics, Buenos Ayres, ChUi, Peru,BoHvia, Ecuador, and Mexico, usually average more than arevolution amongst them every year, and are often theScene of two at
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