Extract of a letter published in the Philadelphia Gazette, dated 25th July.
    I write you from the City of Kings and the Garden of Eternal Summer; where rain is unknown; but vegetation enjoys uninterrupted health, cherished by nightly dews.
    Lima is proverbially called, the Heaven of ladies-the purgatory of men-and the Hell of jack asses.
    The ladies enjoy supreme authority and unbounded indulgence in every wish-the men are their humble servants, and, in their amours, suffer every pain the most artful coquetry can inflict. The jack asses ought surely to be rewarded hereafter for their dreadful and unmerited sufferings here. Loaded so they can scarcely stand, they are spurred, lashed, and stabbed, until they drop dead under the torture. But this is so common, that no further trouble is taken than to remove the load, and let them lie in the roads, which are lined with their dead bodies.
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