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if we may give the name of port to a road, in 

 which the vessels are obliged to put to sea when- 

 ever the winds blow violently from the north- 

 west. It is impossible to speak of Orotava, 

 without recalling to the remembrance of the 

 scientific world the name of Mr. Cologan, whose 

 house at all times was open to travellers of every 

 nation. Several members of this respectable 

 family have been educated at London and at 

 Paris. Don Bernardo Cologan unites the most 

 ardent zeal for the good of his country to various 

 parts of solid instruction. We are agreeably 

 surprised to find, in a group of islands near the 

 coasts of Africa, that urbanity, that taste for 

 knowledge, that love of the arts, which is 

 thought to belong exclusively to a small part of 

 Europe. 



We could have wished to have sojourned for 

 some time in Mr. Cologan's house, and visited 

 with him the charming scenery of St. Juan de la 

 Rambla and of Rialexo de Abaxo *. But on a 

 voyage such as that we had undertaken, the pre- 

 sent is but little enjoyed. Continually haunted 

 by the fear of not executing the designs of the 

 morrow, we live in perpetual uneasiness. Per- 

 sons who are passionately fond of nature and 

 the arts, feel the same sensations, when they 

 travel through Switzerland and Italy. Enabled 



* The last of these two villages is placed at the foot of the 

 lofty mountain of Tygayga. 



