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REMARKS AND OPINIONS, 



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NATURALIST OF THE EXPEDITION, 



CONTINUED. 



TENERIFFE. 



Many learned men have visited and described 

 Teneriffe. Alexander Von Humboldt, and Bom- 

 pland, were on this island, and ascended the Pic de 

 Tevde. Leopold Von Buch and Christian Schmidt 

 made the whole chain of the Canary islands the 

 scene and subject of their scientific researches, and 

 ascended the Pic several times; the last time, shortly 

 before our arrival, late in the season, to collect the 

 plants growing on it, with their fruit ripe. After the 

 short view which was allowed us, we can only 

 refer the curious to the learned work of Bory de 

 Saint Vincent, and Humboldt's Travels ; and to 

 the fruits of the labours of those celebrated men 

 whom we regretted not to have met here. The 

 learned world now expects an account of these 

 labours from M. Von Buch alone, as Professor 



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