[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.