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Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2): A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That CountrySmith, Archibald

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Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2): A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That Country

Name: Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2): A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That Country
Author: Smith, Archibald

Smith, Archibald

Peru -- Description and travel

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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. II.

                                 LONDON:
                 RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
                  Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
                                  1839.

                                 LONDON:
                       PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
                      Dorset Street, Fleet Street.




CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.


                               CHAPTER I.

    Site, population, and climate of Cerro Pasco.—Houses.—Coal,
    and other kinds of fuel.—Timber for use of
    the mines, &c.—Where brought from.—Fruit and
    provisions.—Mines.—Mantadas.—Boliches.—Habilitador.—Mint.
    —Returns of the mines.—Banks of Rescate.—Pasco foundery.       Page 1

                               CHAPTER II.

    Descent from Pasco to Huanuco.—Succession of
    works for grinding and amalgamating silver
    ore.—Quinoa.—Cajamarquilla.—Huariaca.—San Rafael.—Ambo.—Vale
    of Huanuco; its beauties and advantages.—State of agriculture
    in this vale, and traffic with Pasco.—The College named La
    Virtud Peruana.—Steam navigation on the river Huallaga, and
    civilization of the wild Indians of the Montaña.—Natural
    productions of the Montaña.                                        28

                              CHAPTER III.

    The Department of Junin.—The river Marañon.—General
    sketch of the form of internal Government of
    Peru.—Particular account of the Prefectorate or Department
    of Junin.—Mines.—Agriculture.—Manufactures.—Public
    Instruction.—Hospitals and Charitable
    Asylums.—Vaccination.—Junta of Health.—Public
    Baths.—Police.—Pantheons.—Roads.—Posts.—Public Treasury at
    Pasco.—Administration of Justice.—National Militia.                65

                               CHAPTER IV.

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