Degentes per hæc loca Britanni, auspice suo Consule Belford Hinton Wilson, gratissimoque hujus Reipublicæ concessu et beneficio, è communibus copiis, Regiâ, censente Senatu, auctis munificentiâ, hoc Cœmeterium struxerunt, sacraveruntque, A. D. ——: ut, posthac, suæ gentis qui procul à patriâ, longinquâ hâc scilicet, sed amicissimâ terrâ, supremum obierint diem, spe fideque patrum innixi, in his sedibus requiescant. [13] See Appendix. [14] See paper in vol. ii. of Mercurio Peruano for July 1791; and the Inaugural Oration on opening the Anatomical Amphitheatre, inserted, for February 1793, in vol. vii. of same work. [15] Unanue, “Sobre el Clima de Lima,” p. 313. [16] Sheriff John Wood, the gratuitous and philanthropic teacher of the Sessional School of Edinburgh. [17] Homer must have visited Lima, either in the body or in the mind, when he penned those beautiful lines which so precisely describe it, and are thus translated by Pope: Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime: The fields are florid with unfading prime: From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale. _Odyssey_, Book iv. l. 767. [18] “Cruachan,” the loftiest mountain in Argyleshire, well known to tourists in Scotland. [19] By this embrace the victorious troops under General Bermudes forsook his cause, and at once terminated hostilities by changing sides and declaring themselves soldiers of Orbegoso and the republic, which they ratified by embracing the troops that fled before them on the day of battle. [20] On the day a curate performs church service, he does not breakfast until after mass. [21] We say “Romish policy,” because on this subject St. Paul’s precept is, Quod si non se continent nubant. [22] When the Spaniards took possession of Peru, the monarchy of the Incas, according to the tradition of the Indians, ascended to an epoch of about four centuries. “That country had been, time immemorial, inhabited by scattered, rude, and savage tribes, whose civilization originated from the austral regions, among the people who inhabited the vicinity of the great lake of Titicaca, in the district of Callao. These Indians were probably more warlike, active, and intelligent than their neighbours; and as there is scarcely any people who do not, either from pride or superstition, trace themselves to a heavenly origin, so did the Peruvians relate, that there once suddenly appeared among them a man and woman, whose aspect, dress, and language inspired them with wonder and veneration. He called himself Manco Capac, she Mama Oello; and they proclaimed themselves children of the sun, whose worship and adoration they inculcated.”