Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . RUINS OF CASTLE ON LEFT SIDE OF SENOR FARM. left skirts the ruins which we are about to off by Ascona, (another farm,) this lattercomes out by the race-course, and the penitentiaryafter a ride of three miles to the city of this last-named road we take a turn round thecorner of the old wall, enclosing the temple, tohave a sketch of part of these which remain. Mr. Steers measurements of them are asfollow:—The most southern of the four masses— VOL. I. u 290 TWO YEARS IN PERU. [cilAP. XIV. that represented i
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . RUINS OF CASTLE ON LEFT SIDE OF SENOR FARM. left skirts the ruins which we are about to off by Ascona, (another farm,) this lattercomes out by the race-course, and the penitentiaryafter a ride of three miles to the city of this last-named road we take a turn round thecorner of the old wall, enclosing the temple, tohave a sketch of part of these which remain. Mr. Steers measurements of them are asfollow:—The most southern of the four masses— VOL. I. u 290 TWO YEARS IN PERU. [cilAP. XIV. that represented in the ilhistration,—he ascer-tained to be 70 feet high and ]53 yards squareat the top—the cubic contents calculated at. IAKT OF EUINS OF DOUBLE WALL AT TEMPLE OF RIMAC. 14,536,989 feet of material. This is only one,though apparently the largest of those within theenclosure of the big walls. The ruins, tracked byhim, measured 560 yards in one direction, and424 yards in the other—thus constituting a quadri-lateral enclosure of 237,440 square yards, or about49 square acres. On the top of this, as on the fortresses ofArambolu, and San Miguel, were also discerniblethe outlines of large square rooms, filled up, as allthe others, even to the topmost height of 70 feet,with earth or clay. Hence our road lies through the little village of CIIAI. \l\ . I \ II l,\(;i: (•! MAChAMlNA. 201 I\Im^-(I;i1(Mi:i, wliicli li:is ii()lliiii<^ ul)onl il lo justifyS(Mi(»r l{ivoro*8 suspicion of its l)c*iii<^ creeled oii(lie sit(» ol the old llii;die;i city. If/ is ;i townwitli Ji few liinidiiMl iidia})itiuiis—nil of tlie /)«-tifia hlifr class—a elia[)el, with tlic (viires liousoalongside^—an a(|iieducl coming
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