Rimas Antig. Castellanas.
[10] The ancient Indian temple of Pachacamac is situate about six leagues from Lima on a sandy height, now deprived of irrigation, which overlooks the delicious vale of Lurin. From this adoratory the sun is seen as he sinks in majesty under the face of the ocean—when
“O’er the hush’d deep the yellow beam he throws,
Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.”
Byron.
[11] The yanacones usually possess from their employers a small piece of land which they cultivate for their own use, and in return give to the masters one or two days’ labour weekly for this holding of the estate or farm. On other days they have a right to demand payment in money, according to the current rate of wages in their district.
[12] The following very scholar-like inscription for the English burial-ground, his countrymen owe to our accomplished and excellent friend, Mr. Thomas Lance of Lima:—
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.