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returned to my lliip, befpoke fome corn and draw for the live '77<s. 

 flock ; ordered a quantity of wine from Mr. M'Carrick, the 

 contradlor, and made an agreement with the matter of a 

 Spanifli boat to fupply us with water, as I found that we 

 could not do it ourfelves. 



The road of Santa Cruz is fituated before the town of the 

 fame name, on the South Eaft fide of the ifland. It is, as I 

 am told, the principal road of TenerifFe, for fhelter, capa- 

 city, and the goodnefs of its bottom. It lies entirely open 

 to the South Eaft and South winds. But thefe winds are 

 never of long continuance; and, they fay, there is not an 

 inftance * of a fhip driving from her anchors on fliore. 

 This may, in part, be owing to the great care they take in 

 mooring them ; for I obferved, that all the (hips we met 

 with there, had four anchors out ; two to the North Eaft, 

 and two to the South Weft; and their cables buoyed up with 

 caflcs. Ours fuffered a little by not obferving this laft pre- 

 caution. 



At the South Weft part of the road, a fione pier runs out 

 into the fea from the town, for the convenience of loading 

 and landing of goods. To this pier, the water that fupplies 

 the fhipping is conveyed. This, as alfo what the inhabit- 

 ants of Santa Cruz ufe, is derived from a rivulet that runs 

 from the hills, the greateft part of which comes into the 

 town in wooden fpouts or troughs, that are fupported by 

 flender pofts, and the remainder doth not reach the fea ; 

 though it is evident, from the fize of the channel, that 



* Though no fuch inftance was known to thofe from whom Captain Cook had 

 this information, we learn from Glas, that fome years before he was at TenerifFe, 

 ahmjl all the fhipping in the road ivcre driven on Jhorc. See G/as's Hijl. of the Canary 

 IJlandst p. 235. We may well fuppofe the precautions now ufed, have prevented any 

 more fuch accidents happening. This will fufficiently juftify Captain Cook's account. 



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