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New AND INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN
SourH AMERIcA.-The National Intelli-
gencer contains long letter from Mr..
Pickett, nj Lima, commenting upon discov-
cries of very extraordinary ruins, said to
have been found by Judge Neito in the
province Of ChachaPoyas, while on an ex-
ploring expedition. In making survey Of
the country, he found al Ceulap. building
of a most extraordinary character, which he
describes as n wall of hewn stone $50 feet
in width, 5000 feet in length; and $50
high.


This cdifice being solid in the interior
for the whole space contained within ), &c.,
600 feet Of circumference, which il has, 10
the before mentioned height Of 80 feet, l.
solid and levelled, and upon il there is ano-
ther wall of 800, 900 feet in circumference
in this form, 600 feet in length and 500
feet in breadth, with the same elevation (I5O
icct) of the lower wall, and, like it, solid and
levelled to the summit. In this elevation
and also in that of the lower wall, are a
great many habitations ofrooms Of the same
hewn stone, I3 feet long and I5 wide, and
in these rooms, as well as between the dir
viding walls Of the great wall, are found
neatly constructed inches, a yard or two
thirds in length, and half yard broad and
deep, in which are found bones of the an
cient dead. some naked and some in cotton
shrouds or blankets of very firm texture.
though coarse, and all worked with borders
of different colors. Ii this description is
authcntic-and we have no reason to doubt
it-this building must be the greatest bull
ding in the world in point Of size We
know Of nothing in Egypt or Persia to equal
il. From the description il must have been
vast tomb, but whether erected by the
Indians, before the Spanish discovery, or by
remoter generations, cannot be decided; yet
the Judge says that the ingenious and high
ly wrought specimens Of workmanship, the
elegance of the cutting of some of the hard
est stone, the ingenuity and solidity of the
gigantic work, all in stone; the elegant ar
ticlcs Of gold and silver, and the curiously
wrought stones found in the mounds, all
satisfy him that the territory was occupied
by an enlightened nation, which declined
in the same manner as others more modern;
as Babylon, Balbec, and the cities of Syria;
and this. he says is evidently the work o
people from the old world, as the Indians
had no instruments ofiron to work with"