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NEW AND INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN
SOUTH AMERIcA.--'The National Intellieen
cercontains a long letter from Mr.. Pickett. AT
Lima, commenting upon discoveries ofvery
extraordinary ruins, said to have been found
by Judge Neito in the province of Chacha.
poyas, while on an exploring expediticn.
In making a survey of the country. he found
at Ceulap, a building of very extraordina-
ry character, which he describes as a wall of
hewn stone 500 feet in width, 5000 feet in
length, and $50 feet high.


eThis editicc being solid in the interior
tor the whole space contained within D &c.
600 feet IN cirCumereIoe; which il has 10
the before mentioned height of $50 feet is
solid and levclle1 and upon it there is ano
thcr wall of 300, 900 feet in circum 'erence
in this form 600 feet in length and 500 feet
in breadth; with the same elevation. $50 lce;)
ofthe lower wall, and like it solid AMI level
to the summit. In this elevation. and also
that Of the lower wall, are great many hab-
itaiions or rooms of the same hewn stone.
Is feet long and 10 feet wide. ana in these
rooms, as wei a between the dividing walls
oi the great wall are found neatly construc-
ted nichcs, yard or two-ihirds long, and a
half yard broad and deep, in which are fo,in1
bones of the ancient dead some naked AMI
some in cotton shrou1s o. Blankets of very
firm texture, though coarse al1 all worked
with bo.is:j with dlieren. colors. lfthis
des cripton Is auth1nic-and we have NJ
reason to doubt this INST be the greatest
Building in the word in point of size We
know Of nothing in Egypt or Persia to eq'ial
it. From the description it must have been
vast tomb, b1t whether erected BY the In
dianS, bcfJce the Spanish discovery, or re-
moter generations cannot be decided; vet the
Judge says that the ingenious and highly
wrought specimen of workman ship. The elc-
gance of the eating OF some Of the
hardest stone, the ingenuity and so,idiiy
OF The ii galiic work. all in stone. the elc
CANT articles of gold anI silver, AMI
the curiosity wrought stones found in the
mounds, al satisfy him that that territory
was occupied by an enlightened nation,
which dec ined in the same manneras others
IN pre modern. a Babylon, Balbec and the
cite Of SYRIA, an this he SAYS, is evidently
rom The work of people from the old world
as the In lians had no nstrlm snts of iron l.
work with.