ndon, 1570). _De Canibus
Britannicis_ (1570, 1729). _De Pronunciatione Graecae et Latinae Linguae_
(London, 1574); _De Libris propriis_ (London, 1570). He also wrote numerous
other works which were never printed.
For further details see the _Biographical History of Caius College_, an
admirable piece of historical work, by Dr John Venn (1897).
CAJAMARCA, or CAXAMARCA, a city of northern Peru, capital of a department
and province of the same name, 90 m. E. by N. of Pacasmayo, its port on the
Pacific coast. Pop. (1906, estimate) of the department, 333,310; of the
city, 9000. The city is situated in an elevated valley between the Central
and Western Cordilleras, 9400 ft. above sea level, and on the Eriznejas, a
small tributary of the Maranon. The streets are wide and cross at right
angles; the houses are generally low and built of clay. Among the notable
public buildings are the old parish church built at the expense of Charles
II. of Spain, the church of San Antonio, a Franciscan monastery, a nunnery,
and the remains of the palace of Atahualpa, the Inca ruler whom Pizarro
treacherously captured and executed in this place in 1533. The hot sulphur
springs of Pultamarca, called the Banos del Inca (Inca's baths) are a short
distance east of the city and are still frequented. Cajamarca is an
important commercial and manufacturing town, being the distributing centre
for a large inland region, and having long-established manufactures of
woollen and linen goods, and of metal work, leather, etc. It is the seat of
one of the seven superior courts of the republic, and is connected with the
coast by telegraph and telephone. A railway has been undertaken from
Pacasmayo, on the coast, to Cajamarca, and by 1908 was completed as far as
Yonan, 60 m. from its starting-point.
The department of Cajamarca lies between the Western and Central
Cordilleras and extends from the frontier of Ecuador S. to about 7 deg. S.
lat., having the departments of Piura and Lambayeque on the W. and Amazonas
on the E. Its area according to official returns is 12,542 sq. m. The upper
Maranon traverses the department from S. to N. The department is an
elevated region, well watered with a large number of small streams whose
waters eventually find their way through the Amazon into the Atlantic. Many
of its productions are of the temperate zone, and considerable attention is
given to cattle-raising. Coal is found in the province of Hualgayoc at the
southern extre
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