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CUZCO: TRE HISTORICAL AND MONUMENTAL
CITY OF PERU
underground chiambe.r. On the highier lain d neair these remains is
an a.quedu ct carryi·ng water from the moun.tains ail'd CJUt ín r-0ck.
neair this aqueduct is a figm·e of t he sun painted on rock.
Ccorihuairachina. - Towards Salapuncu .and two ueb
before arriving at Torontoi are found these ruins. Thiey of
iruteres t as her.e was supposed to be the 1Secret plllSsage of the
river towards the roa d of Machu Picch'lll on th.e lefit ba'Ilk of the
river. There is a stairway of more than one hundMd steps made
of snail Shehls. In tbis 1oea1ity i'Il a primit:ive manne r the •natives
stretched a cord across the river, botlh ends faJStened to huge
houMers 011 which w ivance .moved by th-e hand~ and
foet for carrying the passeng.er. AH this section is rocky.
Torontoi. - Lower down from Ocor,ihuairachina and on the
same ro-ad o alley oifi onvención (-n,eariµg the w111rmer
regi<ms), with ' o ues and vege , is a settlement of ¡¡,bout
twewty thatch liuts e lled 'l'oro' . A 1Shol'lt di<Stanee fr-0m
the 1-ast of th hu " .i;o a large ha'J,l or iÍin, ca,Hed by füe Indiana
Inca Pe¡¡c a- ( ca1 Wailtl). Lt jjs almost quare in forro its four
inbact wll!J 1 are of similar cion truetion an<l appee.rance to that
of the H 'afun Rumiyocc in Cu~co. There is one stone with more
than thirty corners. Th.e waiJl is bored aJt equal distanees,
between which a re ·Stone nails whieh serve more for ornamentatinn
and j utt from the walls more tihan twenty centimeters. This is a
detail, seen in no other co ction. ala ha5 a11 the appear·
anee of .a temple. There ailso In habitaúi.ons for ala.ves
ma,de of adobe .adjoining the sala, bu.t of no especial interest.
Machu Picchu. - A prehi·sitoric town wbose scientific interest
da.tes from 1911 fo11ow.ing the visit of t h e Scientifrc Ex:pedition
of Yale University un<ler the weH known br. Hiram Bingham,
situated one thousand meteT above t he Rio Vilcanota. To aseend
to the town it is necessary ifir t to go to the Puente de &n Mi·
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