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1 wouM not bring a barometer ; bat we learnt at 

 Orotava that we had been milinformed, when it 

 was no longer in my power to procure this mean 

 of ohfcrvalion*. 



were to fet out early the next morning on 

 our journey towards the Peak. But it was a feC- 

 tival, and our guides would not have ftirred 

 w ithout having been to mafs ; fome of them had 

 heard three ; l.; for us, we were waiting with 

 the molt lively impatience, when our unealinefs 

 increafed, on learning that it was a very particu- 

 lar favour for them to think of travelling on fd 

 folemn a day. However, they were ready to de- 

 part about nine o'clock in the morning. 



As foon as we had got out of the town, wc 

 afcended by roads often very ftecp, whence we" 

 perceived enormous heaps of mountains piled 

 one upon another* and riling in the form of art 

 amphitheatre, as far as the bafe of the Peak. Their 

 brows now and then afforded us fpots tolerably 

 level, which fcrved us as fo many retting- places, 

 where, after having- afcended by very fteep paths, 



It appear* by T.i Teroufe's voyage, that at the time of his 

 anchoring in the road of Santa Cruz, Lamanon having carried 

 the b.-irometer to the top of the Pc?k of Tcneriffe, the mercury 

 had fallen to 18 inches 4 lines, the thermometer then (landing 

 at 9^ above o ; while at Santa Cruz the mercury in the ba- 

 rometer w as at the fame infiant at 28 inches 3 lines, the thermo- 

 meter indicating a: the tarnc place 24^. 



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