SKETCH OF MADEIRA. 



CHAPTEK I. 



A DESCRIPTION OF MADEIRA. 



" The wanderer's eye could barely view 

 The summer heaven's delicious blue; 

 So wondrous wild, the whole might seem 

 The scenery of a fairy dream." 



Walter Scott. 



Approach to Madeira. — Mount Church. — Visit boat. — Beach. — Funchal. — 

 Prazas. — Buildings. — Turrets. — Scenery. — Daguerreotype. — Convey- 

 ances Burroqueros. — Rides. — Pic-nics. — The Estreito. — Jardim. — 



Curral da3 Freiras. — Pico Grande. — Short road to the Curral. — Expe- 

 dition to Cape Girao. — Camera de Lobos. — Campanario. — Expedition to 

 Machico. — Sancta Cruz. — Machico. — Portella. — Serra de Santo Antonio. 

 — Camacha. — Palheiro. — Afternoon rides. — Boating excursions. — Expe- 

 dition to S?° Vincente. — Rabaqal. — Calheta. — Expedition to Santa Anna. 

 — Boa Ventura. — Entroza Pass. — Sa° Jorge. — Santa Anna. — Pico Ruivo. 

 — Vista of Faial. — Metade Valley. — Ribeiro Frio. — Lamuceiras. — 

 Summary. 



Madeira is situated between the thirty-second and thirty- 

 third parallels of north latitude, and between the sixteenth 

 and eighteenth meridians of west longitude ; its extreme 

 length is about thirty-three miles, and its greatest breadth 

 about fourteen. 



APPROACH TO MADEIRA. 



Perhaps no spot on earth is first seen with emotions more 

 various than this island, according to the different conditions 

 of feeling under which it is approached. To one, its glowing 



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