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(The Time-keeper - 17° o' 30") '776. 



Jj ne lime-Keeper - 17 o 30 ] 

 Lunar obfervations - 16° 30' 20" > Weft. 

 Mr. Varila - - 16" 46' o"J 



But if the latitude of it is 28' 12' 54", as in the Britiflj Man- 

 ner^s Guide, its longitude will be 13' 30" more wefterly. 



The variation, when we were at anchor in the road, by 

 the mean of all our compafles, was found to be 14° 41' 20" 

 Weft. The dip of the North end of the needle was 61" 52' 



Some of Mr. Anderfon's remarks on the natural appear- 

 ances of TenerifFe, and its produ<5lions ; and what he obferved 

 himfelf, or learnt by information, about the general ftate 

 of the ifland, will be of ufe, particularly in marking what 

 changes may have happened there fince Mr. Glas vifited it. 

 They here follow in his own words: 



" While we were ftanding in for the land, the weather 

 being perfedliy clear, we had an opportunity of feeing the 

 eelebrated Pic of Teneriffe. But, I own, I was much difap- 

 pointed in my expecflation with refpecfl; to its appearance. 

 It is, certainly, far from equalling the noble figure of Pico, 

 one of the weftern illes which I have feen ; though its per- 

 pendicular height may be greater. This circumftance, per- 

 haps, arifes from its being furrounded by other very high. 

 hills; whereas Pico ftands without a rival. 



Behind the city of Santa Cruz, the country rifes gradu- 

 ally, and is of a moderate height. Beyond this, to the 

 South Weftward, it becomes higher, and continues to rife- 

 towards the Pic, which, from the road, appears but little 

 higher than the furrounding hills. From thence it feems to 

 decreafe, though not fuddenly, as far as the eye can reach. 

 From a fuppofition that we fliould not ftay above one day, 



I was 



Augurt. 



