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Lima (Capital of Peru at the lao)

the capital of Peru; at the lao, its port on the Pacific, on the Rimac river. It is regularly built, and many of the streets have a stream of water running down the center. The numerous domes and spires give Lima a fine appearance from a distance, but the houses are mostly of unburnt brick. Among the public buildings and institutions the cathedral, the convent of San Francisco, the exhibition palace, and the university with its national library and museum, deserve special mention. The manufactures are unimportant, but there is a considerable import and export trade tures are unimportant, but there is a is very agreeable, but the locality is subject to earthquakes, the most destructive having been that of 1746. Lima was founded in 1535 by Pizarro, and called LIMERICK prus. It has no harbor, but there is a LIMASOL, the chief seaport of Cythe Chileans, who occupied it for upin Cyprus where English troops are per-