Mexico - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 4 - By Robert Kerr
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[24] No place of that name is now found in our best maps. The principal
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- E. [24] No Place Of That Name Is Now Found In Our Best Maps.

The principal town of the district of Chachapoyas has the same name, otherwise called St Juan de la Frontera.

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[25] Not far to the south of San Leon de Guanuco, in the mountains of Lauricocha, there are considerable silver mines. - E.

[26] No such place is now found on our maps in the province of Guamanga; but the ruins of a town named Vittoria are marked in the district of Calca, about fifty miles north-west from the city of Cuzco. Perhaps the Vittoria of the text is the town now called Guamanga. - E.

[27] Probably the country of the people now called _Chunchos_, who are implacable enemies to the Spaniards. - E.

[28] Probably the province now called _Chicas_ on the eastern side of the Andes, occupying the head of the river Chirivionas which joins the Paraguay or Rio Plata. - E.

[29] Off the mouth of the river Lurin, in lat. 12 deg. 26' S. is the island of Pachacamac, probably indicating the situation of the ancient province of that name. - E.

[30] The first of the Incas is named by Robertson, II. 290. and III. 47. Manco Capac. - E.

[31] By Zarate this Inca is named Guaynacava, but the more general name used by Garcilasso de la Vega and other Spanish writers, and from them by the illustrious Robertson, is adopted in this translation. - E.

[32] Garcilasso de la Vega, p. 65, describes the bridge over the Apurimac not far from Cuzco, as about two hundred paces in length.

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