Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-28
Friday evening, Jan. rs. 1851.
II CAPTURED 7
Lima, The Mountain City Cap
tured by the ChiIiaUs.

Lima, the captured city, is the cap
ital of Peru, and Of the department
and province Of its own name. 1t is
situated on the Rimac river, seven
miles from Callao, its port on the Pa
ci6c, and has a population Of about
10000 souls. The city, which il tri.
angular, stands on a plain in a valley
gradually sloping to the sea. 1t is
800 feet above Uallao, but so gentle is
the slope that the road appears abso-
lutely level. To the west and south
no eminence intercepts the view or
breaks the wind, but sixty miles to
the east rises the CordilleTa in regular
stages, while spurs trending shore
yard from the Andes sweep close by
the town north ard east, and afford it
q complete shelter. The city is two
miles long and one and a quarter miles
wide, aud is divided by the Rimac
river, which is crossed by a stone
bridge of six arches, builtin 1910, 800
feet long, and by a handsome
iron structure, built by a firm
Of French contractors, and completed
about a year ago. The lower or south
ern, and by far the larger part of the
city, is surrounded by walls, built in
1880. This walled portion has twelve
gates, the most beautiful of which are
those Of Calloa and Marivillas. The
other portion 0 fthe city, encireled by
mountains, has two entrances, La
Qua and La Pedro Liza. The houses
are fiat rooted, and most of them only
two stories high, as earthquakes are
common There are thirty-three pub
lie squares in Lima, the most spacious
being the Plaza Mayor, which EN-
braces nine acresin the center Of the
city. 1t has a fountain in each of the
four corners, and one in the center
surrounded by a gorgeous garden.
There are many beautiful public edi-
fees, the most remarkable Of which
are the cathedral, the archbishop and
the government palaces, and the town
hall. al constructed by Francisco Pr
zarro, whose ashes repose beneath the
grand altar Of the first. The cathedral
is Of stone, 800 feet long, and sur
mounted by two towers 1873 feet high.
The interior is sumptuously orna.
mented. 1t was greatly damaged BY
earthquakes in l746, and was rebuilt
By the Yiceroy Count Superunda
There'are fity-six other ecc~lesiastica
edi6ces, one Of the most splendid OF
which is the immense church Of Sar
Pedro, founded in 1888, which ha,
seventeen affairs and is decorated in
good taste. The Lima university
founded in 1851, is the Oldest in Amer.
lea. The present building was erected
in 1916. Few American cities have ,
larger number Of handsome statues
than Lima. In the Alameda Nuev;
is a fine marble statue of Columbu
unwilling an Indian, and in the Plaz'
de 10 Constitution is a ma9nTficen
bronze equestrian statue Of Boil var
weighing eleven tons, and mounted Of
. marble pedestal, with bassi reloiy
ofthe battles Of Ayacucho and Junin
Lima was founded on January 6, 1886
by Francisco Pizarro, who was assas
sinated there on June 26, 1871. Pizsr
TO named 1t Cludad de los Revos (Cit.
of Kings, but that name soon gavl
place to Lima, probably a Spanish cor
ruption Of Rimac. The city has fro
quently been visited by earthquakes
that Of 1746 proving fatal to the port
In 1853 IL was ravaged by the yellow
fever, the only disastrous epidemic re
corded in its annals. Or July q
1891, it was entered BY the Chilisi
army under San Martin. who. on tn
18th. was proclaimed protector Of indie
pszdent Peru, aud on June % 1885