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mountains, and feemed in fhape like a hay- 

 Hack. It is affirmed that its fummit continues 

 burning, and for that reafon nobody dares 

 afcend fo high. Teneriffe being on our right, 

 Canary was consequently on the left, but out 

 of fight. The paffage here is reckoned more 

 h(c than on the other fide of Tencriff'e 2 . 



The 28th of March, 22 12' North Lat. 



Past eight o'clock in the evening the wind 

 abated, and fuch a continual lightning enfued, 

 that it feemed as if the whole fhip was on fire. 

 Afterwards it likewife thundered a little, and 

 about nine o'clock fell a; -violent hail-florm ;' 

 the largeft of the flones were of the fize of 

 beans. The figure of the liail-ftone's' was t&t 

 alike, yet they all had two or three white 

 rings in the middle, like fiflies-eyes. This was 

 a remarkable Maunday-thurfday, efpecially 

 fo near the tropic of Cancer, which we pafled 

 the midnight next following. -" 



z For a full'account of Pico Texcrffi' feefciihop Sprat's 

 Hi (lory of the Royal Society. ' 



The 



