. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . View of the Bridge oi Lima. gorical tiguie of Time has since been erected, and in a niche,whicli, before tlie earthquake, was occupied by an image of theVirgin of Belen (Bethlehem), there is now a handsome clock withtwo transparent dials. The inhabitants of the lower part of the town having sufferedgieatly fiom inundations, the authorities determined, in 1G37, topi-event such disasters in future by erecting large dikes of masonry,lo whicli i»urpose fifty thousand piastres were devoted.
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . View of the Bridge oi Lima. gorical tiguie of Time has since been erected, and in a niche,whicli, before tlie earthquake, was occupied by an image of theVirgin of Belen (Bethlehem), there is now a handsome clock withtwo transparent dials. The inhabitants of the lower part of the town having sufferedgieatly fiom inundations, the authorities determined, in 1G37, topi-event such disasters in future by erecting large dikes of masonry,lo whicli i»urpose fifty thousand piastres were devoted. >\;,lrr. — The water of the river, public fountains, and privatewells contains a great quantity of calcai-eous salts especially sul-phate (if hme, but, on the whole, is pure and wholesome. Fouiiiaiiis. — Before a company was estal)]ished in Lima tosuj)pl\ iiouses with water conveyed through iron pipes, there were.
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