The Quarterly Review, Vol. 113 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 113 When the Spaniards first landed upon that part of the American continent which bore the name of Peru, it comprehended the whole of that enormous territory west of the Andes, from the second degree north, to the seventh degree of south latitude, and included the valleys and table-lands lying between the great mountain-chains, with certain tracts east of the Andes, constituting the whole of that vast region now subdivided into the five States of New Granada, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chili, and Peru. It extended for 400 miles in a straight line, and varied in breadth from 300 to 400 miles. These Republics now occupy the territory of a great native empire, and its inhabitants tread on the dust of an ancient people, whose government was in every respect the most complete contrast to their own. Immobility was its characteristic, and that attribute is stamped on all the great public structures which have survived the ravages of time, for they exhibit a cyclopean architecture as vast as that of Babylon, and almost as solid as that of Rome. A state of turbulence constantly verging upon anarchy has been inflicted on the descendants of the men who destroyed a mighty empire which, it despotic in its form, was paternal in its aspect, and certainly made the welfare of its subjects the primary object of its care, for this great monarchy fell not from the effects of any internal corruption, but it became the prey of a gang of rogues, plunderers, and ferocious bravoes, such as probably never before or since disgraced the flag of a Christian State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.