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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
V.
ground was O:ony, they gathered up the cones, and covered the barren Soil
with
fre{h
Earth
to
make their Levels,
cbac
io no part
f the ground might be lofl: :
The
firll:
Allie
w
re the hrgefi, and as fpJtious as rhe fituation of the place could
bear, fome being of chat length and breadth as
w~re
apable
to
receive a hundred,
fome two hundred, or three hundred Buihells of eed
:
The
fecoud-,row of
Allies
were m1de narrower and fhorter, and
fo
went leifening, untill
a,t
lafr,
at the bot–
tom
and lowermofl: Ally, they were comraeted to
fo
narrow a
Com
pa~,
as
was
not capable
to
produce more than nvo or three [mall meafure of
May:..
In
fome parts they husbanded their matter, that they brought the Chanels of water
from fifteen or
twenty
Leagues difrance, though
it '
ere onely
to
improve
a
flip
of a few Acres of Land,
which
was efieemed good Corn-ground.
Ha
ing
in
this manner
(as
we have faid) improved, and enlarged their Lands, the
next thing \\as
ro
make a jufr DiviGon of them
in
all Counrrie ;
for
performance.
ofwhich they di ided the grounds into three parts, one\: as allotted
to
the Sun>
a fe
ond to the King, and a
third
to
the
Inhabitants: Thi Rule
was
obferved
with
great e.
acrnefs,
and in favour of the People, that
fo
the Native might not
w
nt
ground for tillage; for in that cafe, when the
ountrey abounded
with
numbers of People, they abated of the proportion allotted
co
the un, and to
the
Inca,
for the fake and benefit of the ubje&; fo that io
ffect, neither did
the
King
in
his o vn, or in right of the un, appropriate to himfelf any Lands,
but
fuch
as lay unrilled, unpoifefr, and wichout
a
Proprieror. Mofi of the Lands
belonging
to
the un, and the
Inca,
were inclofed , and laid
in
Allies, being
fo
manured
and
improved by fpecial Command. Belides rhefe Land , which by
reafon of their convenient firoation
for
receiving Water, produ ed
Mqyz,,
they
made
a
Divilion of other Land,
a.l[o
that were
in
a
dry
foil,
without any conve–
nience ofwater, and yet becaufe they were capable
to
produce fome forts of grane>
and putre, fuch as they called
Papa,
and
Oca,
and
Ann;u,
~
hich were very benefi-
ial; rhe Sun and the
King
had their fhares allm.ved thereo£
This
foil, which
for
want of water
\Vas
thus barren, they
did
not fow above one or two years
to–
gether, and then broke up frefh ground, leaving the other to lie faHow, untill
it
had
again recovered
its
former firength.
'(
Their
May~,
or
1
heat fields,
which
had the benefit of water, they fowed
ev
ry
year, dunging them after every crop,
as
we d our Gardens, which made
them extremely fruitfu11; and with the
May~
they fowed a fmall feed, like Rice>
\Yhich
they
call
~i1111a,
and gro s much
in
-cold Countries.
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HAP.