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586 586 PERUVIAN ARCHITECTURE. Tart III. and having been originally covered, apjjarently, with a dome-shaped roof either of clay or stucco. Some of these tombs are circular, though the square form seems more common, in those at least which have been noticed by Europeans. .^.^o^^i^^^mmm 1012. Peruvian Tombs. (From a Drawing by J. B. Peiitlaiid.) A specimen of the perfected masonry of the Peruvians is repre- sented in the Woodcut No. 1013. It is a portion of the wall of a Caravanserai, or Tavn^ ._L1 bos, erected by tJie last Incas on the great road they made from their oldest ca])ital, Cuzco, to Sinca. The road was itself perhaps the most extraordinary Avork of their race, being built of large blocks of hard stone, fitted together with the greatest nicety, and so well constructed as to remain entire to the present day remote parts where uninjured by the hand of man. The masonry here, as will be observed, is in regular courses, and beautifully executed, the joints being perfectly fitted, and so close as hardly to be visible, except that the stones are slightly convex on their faces, something after the manner of our rustications. Intermediate between the two extremes just mentioned are the 1013. Elevation of Wall of Tambos. (From Hum- boldt's " Atlas Pittoresque.")