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The present state of Peru : comprising its geography, topography, natural history, mineralogy, commerce, the customs and manners of its inhabitants, the state of literature, philosophy, and the arts, the modern travels of the missionaries in the heretofore unexplored mountainous territories, &c. &c. (1805)

Skinner, Joseph, Phillips, Richard, 1767-1840 · London : Printed for Richard Phillips ... · leaf 232

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taste and efFe6l, as will appearhy Plate VI. the female portrayed in which represents, veryfancifully, the Minerva of Peru. To return to the fountain. The substance of which all itsparts are composed is bronze ; and its respedlive ornaments areconformable to the rules of the composite order of… … t.Tenuzle- t.yn</ujJi. /ui/t/^</ rt^ //te t /Zinfti^i (yf^C/cAu^. Fab. Fei/.u-iihy-hi- Richard Hiiliip.t. S.Ncw Brui^t StJ-eet. THE FOUNTAIN. 205 and seven-twelfths only, to the part to which the water risesto diffuse itself. At each angle of the level surface of masonry, appears asmall basin…

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