Extract of a Tour, hy Mr. Glas. 



he had purposely brought from .our last station. After tra- 

 velling for half a mile over the great stones or rocks, we 

 now were arrived at the foot of the real Peake or Sugar 

 Loaf, which is very steep, and to add to the difficulty of 

 ascending, the ground is loose and gives way under the 

 feet, and consequently extremely fatiguing, for although the 

 length of this eminence is not above half a mile, yet we 

 were obliged to stop and take breath I believe thirty times ; 

 but at last we got to the top, where we lay about a quarter 

 of an hour to rest ourselves, being quite spent with fatigue. 

 The clouds were now spread out under us like an immense 

 ocean ; and above them, at a distance, we could perceive 

 something black, which we took to be the Island of Ma- 

 deira. 



" Had the air been quite clear, I have no doubt but 

 we could have descried Mount Atlas, in Africa, although 

 three hundred miles off; for though the Peak can only be 

 distinguished at sea at the distance of one hundred and fifty 

 miles, yet the spherical figure of the earth would not pre- 

 vent our seeing Mount Atlas, because its summit with that 

 of Teneriffe, would be so far exalted above the horizon. 

 After we had retted for some time, we began to look about 

 and examine the top of the Peake, its dimensions we found 

 to be as Mr. Eden describes, a hundred and forty yards in 

 length, and one hundred and ten in breadth. It is hollow 

 and shaped within like a bell subverted. From the edges 

 or the upper part of this bell or cauldron, as the natives call 

 it, to the bottom, is about forty yards. In many parts of 

 this hollow we observed smoke and steams of sulphur issu- 

 ing forth in puffs. 



" The heat of the ground, in some particular places, 

 was so great as to penetrate through the soles of our 



