54 LETTER 11. 



the Foot-fteps of our Anceftors who difpoffelTed 

 the honeft Charibees, 



31. We returned back again the fame way, 

 and after a long day's fatigue, reached my Friend's 

 Houfe juft as it grew dufkilli 5 where I flayed 

 three or four days, and then travelled home to 

 Nevis^ where I fafely arrived without any thing 

 extraordinary happening to me. Father Ovalle 

 fays, that on the top of the Cordillera or Moun- 

 tains of Andes ^ they cannot fee the Country be- 

 low for Clouds, though the Sky over their heads 

 is clear and bright, and the Sun fhines with admi- 

 rable beauty. It was the fame cafe with us on the 

 top now at our return from the Cavity, for about 

 the fpace of four or five minutes ; and had our 

 Mountain been as high as the Cordillera^ it might 

 have continued fo for as many Days, or perhaps 

 Weeks together. Not but that the Clouds blow 

 quite over the fummits of the highefl Mountains, 

 fuch as the Cordillera^ Alps^ Pyretiees^ ApemtineSy 

 &c. Woods Rogers^ page 21, infifls, That they 

 faw the Fico 'feneriff plain but once whilfl they 

 continued at the Port of Oratava^ it being gene- 

 rally clouded ; you may (adds he) often fee the 

 top above the Clouds, when the reft is all cover- 

 ed with them. 



32. N,B. In my Parifh of St, John in the 

 I (land of Nevis, there is a confiderable fpot of 

 fulphurous ground on the fouth fide, at the up- 

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