The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

/ Boo,K VII. Royal Commentarier. 2-95 " of great multitudes required from ,all Provinces, rfor the forwarding of chefe " Works; the labour was certainly greac, and rhe faíhion admirable and unufual, " for rhey uf~d no Morcar, nor had they !ron or Sceel to cut and poliíh rbe · " Stones, nor Iofirumepts or Erigines to carry and'(áife them 1 1 and yec cheywere , " fo curiouíly joit1ed and fitted~ that rhe places where rhey joined were [caree dif-. " cernible; and yet the Stones were of tbat vaíl: bignefs, as is incredible, unlefs it " be to thofe who have feen .them. In Tiaguanaco I meafured one·my felf, which " was thirty:fobt in length, and eighteen in breadth, and ftx fbot in ihicknefs; " In the Wall of the Fortrefs bui1t ac Co:uo there are Stones of, a far grearer big- « nefs, which were laid by hand, and what is moíl: admirable, is, that they were " never cut by any Rule, being rough call, and withour equal proportionj and " yet are fitted and joined one wichin che orher without any Marrar or Cement, "al! which mull be done by force ofMen, and great coil and labout; .for-cer- " cainly to fit one. S~one to the ocher, which were ac firíl: unequal, rhere mufi..be " often removes, w_hicb could not be performed eaíily but by force and ftr-€ñgch " of the Armes. .All which are che Word? of Acofta, excraéted ~rbatim, wh~reby be maríifeíl:s rhe difficuky of that labour to Men who had not the ufe of chofe In.. firuments and Engiqes which are common amongíl: us. , - , ; · . · Perhaps the .(ncat in, che height oftheir Glory were def:rrotis 'to' re~¡;¡hunen~dté greamefs of rheir pqwer to the adrniracion of all Ages; as alfolto .íhew rhe Are and ingenuity of their Maíl:er-builders, not onely in poliíhing nheirJrne'zed St0ne; (whicli the Spantards do much admir~) but alfo in laying their i;ough Stoaes, (éa.1- led by the ltalitf,ns" fa ruftica) in which they did as much·excdLas in ,the fortñer-; and herein rhey did not onely 1hew thetnfelves Artiíls, bue Souidien;, aH'o iñ tbe contrivances of th~ir Eorcreífes, which they built in every advantageGus Pa@·ahf! , place, where fuch ~ Bu.lwark might <be of defence or bar againít the Incuríi<~ns 15[ an Enemy. . , , , · · . . <_• ~ This C~íl:le. or Fortrefa they ereéted on the top of a high Hill on the Nonh- füle pf che City, .call_e,.d Sacfahuamam, at the foot ofwhich are rheDwelling·fanHes of (;o:uo, which ext.end themfelves at a great dill:ance en·all quarte~s, the füle df .fhis.Hi!J which .is towards the City,. is exaétly perpendicular, fo that it is: impf:c~g­ naple,, a_nd cannot he A:ormed on that part, nor 'can ic · be batrered with_Gannoi:í, by any level, or upper ground whichcommands it; though 'the Indiam befare tbe ~otning of the Spaniand1, had no thoughts or imagination of Cannon, nor provided any other defence than ,a thick Wall ofStone, curiouíly poliíhed ón a.Jl .quarter~, 'being ahout two h11ndred fathom in compalS; every row of Stones was ofa diffé- réñt height, and yet laid exaétly hly nhe Jine, and f0 well fitted and enchafed ooe within the other, that they needed no Lime, or other Morcar ro cement th€m. The trüth is, they ufed no Mortar mixed with Sand; becaufe they knéwMt how to burQ Lime5 howfoever they hada kind ·of .a red.Earth, of.a hitlurn 1 inous tnat- ter, ,which was very biáding, and füch,as ferved to fill up boles and nicks in' die Buil~lrg. And i):l th:is firíl: row they íhewed bothi lnduflry and Arc;"for theW-all was thick, and the Workmaoíhip rare on all fides¡ · , t , . . ,11 ¡ l. .}, ·.h' . ' 1 J 1 . t· . 1, . ¡ I:' ~ f • 1 •• . r, ,.,, I' ·~ l ···r J ' 1 (" T •• Jl '!U t ' .) ~ ..., 1 J J :.; ' • }-;: ~T''" \ .L .: • 1 ~H-, A p":· . \Lit' . ~ .'l .. ,.,, ,. ... , , .1 ·.:. ...