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called El Portillo, and partook of an excellent dinner in a 

 grove of chesnuts situated in the higher regions of the 

 Valley of Orotava, and at six o'clock last evening, we 

 reached this place, where the freshness of the air, with the 

 melody of a hundred songsters that were perched among 

 the creeping plants, whose flowers diffused an aromatic 

 odor, formed the most delightful contrast with the desolate 

 and inhospitable regions from which we had returned. 



Port Orotava, Saturday, ) 

 Au-ust 3],1833. I 



