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How much the temperature of the air varies here, I myfelf '776- 



... Auguft. 



could fenfiby perceive, only in riding from Santa Cruz up to ^- — .^ — -/ 

 Laguna; and you may afcend till the cold becomes intole- 

 rable. I was afTured that no perfon can live comfortably 

 within a mile of the perpendicular height of the Pic, after 

 the month of Augufl *. 



Although fome fmoke conflantly ifTues from near the 

 top of the Pic, they have had no earthquake or eruption of 

 a volcano fmce 1704, when the port of Garrachica, where 

 much of their trade was formerly carried on, was deftroy- 

 edf. 



Their trade, indeed, mud be confidered as very confider- 

 able ; for they reckon that forty thoufand pipes of wine are 

 annually made; the greatell part of which is either con- 

 fumed in the ifland, or made into brandy, and fent to the 

 Spa nifli Weft Indies j;. About fix thoufand pipes were ex- 

 ported every year to North America, while the trade with it 



* This agrees with Dr. T. Heberden's account, who fays that the fugar-loaf part 

 of the mountain, or la pericnfa (as it is called), which is an eighth part of a league (or 

 1980 feet) to the top, is covered with fnow the greatejl part of the year. See Philofa- 

 fhical Tranfa£fions, as quoted above. 



f This port was then filled up by the rivers of burning lava that flowed into it from 

 a volcano ; infomuch that houfes are now built where fliips formerly lay at anchor. 

 See Glas's HiJ}. p. 244. 



X Glas, p. 342, fays, that they annually export no lefs than fifteen thoufand pipes 

 of wine and brandy. In another place, p. 252, he tells us, that the number of the 

 inhabitants of Teneriffe, when the lafl: account was taken, was no Icfs than 96,000. 

 We may reafonably fuppofe that there has been a confiderable increafe of population 

 fince Glas vifited the ifland, which is above thirty years ago. The quantity of wine 

 annually confumed, as the common beverage of at leaft one hundred thoufand perfons, 

 muft amount to feveral thoufand pipes. There muft be a vaft expenditure of it, by 

 converfion into brandy ; to produce one pipe of which, five or fix pipes of wine muft 

 be diftilled. An attention to thefe particulars will enable every one to judge, that the 

 account given to Mr. Anderfon, of an annual produce of 40,000 pipes of wine, has a 

 foundation in truth. 



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