Viii PREFACE. 



If the follo^\•ing pages should be found of sixfficient interest to attract the 

 attention of a few out of the unfortunate invalids who flock to Funchal, winter 

 after mnter, for their health, and with whom the main lamentation which every- 

 where resounds is the total absence of the ordinary enjoyments of a country life, 

 and the want of some local amusement to divert theii* thoughts from the cmises 

 of their lianislmient, one at any rate of the objects for which they have been 

 compiled will have been fully realized. 



London, .Inly 14, 1854. 



