I shall not pretend to give an estimate of the sum produced by the taxes, the jealousy of the Spaniards towards a foreigner being so great that it would have been dangerous for me even to have inquired. The two following items I obtained by chance:
The Custom House of Lima received in 1805 1592837-2½ Ditto in 1810 1640324-4 Produce of bulls in the Commissary's } office for the Viceroyalty of Peru } in 1805 91021 Ditto in 1810 97340-2
City of Lima....Figure and Division....Walls....Bridge....Houses ....Churches....Manner of Building....Parishes....Convents.... Nunneries....Hospitals....Colleges...._Plasa Mayor_....Market.... Interior of the Viceroy's Palace....Ditto Archbishop's Ditto.... Ditto Sagrario....Ditto Cathedral....Ditto Cavildo.
The figure of the city of Lima approaches to that of a semicircle, having the river Rima for its diameter; it is two miles long from east to west, and one and a quarter broad from the bridge to the wall; it is chiefly divided into squares, the length of each side being 130 yards; but in some parts approaching to the wall this regularity is not preserved; all the streets are straight, and they are generally about 25 feet wide; the place contains 157 _quadras_, being either squares or parallelograms, with a few diagonal intersections towards the extremities of the city.
The wall which encloses Lima, except on the side bordering on the river, is built of _adobes_, sun-dried bricks, each brick being twenty inches long, fourteen broad and four thick; they are made of clay, and contain a very large quantity of chopped straw: these bricks are considered as better calculated than stone to resist the shocks of earthquakes, and from their elasticity they would probably be found pretty tough in resisting a cannonading; however, of this there is little risk. The walls are on an average twelve feet high, with a parapet three feet on the outer edge: they are about ten feet thick at the bottom, and eight at the top, forming a beautiful promenade round two-thirds of the city. The wall is flanked with thirty-four bastions, but without embrasures; it has seven gates and three posterns, which are closed every night at eleven o'clock, and opened again every morning at four. This wall of enclosure more than of defence was built by the Viceroy Duke de la Palata, and finished in the year 1685; it was completely repaired by the Viceroy Marquis de la Concordia, in the year 1808. All the gateways are of stone, and of different kinds of architecture; that called _de maravillas_, leading towards the pantheon, is very much ornamented with stucco work.