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raccas, on the ridge of the Andes, in the burning 

 plains of the Philippine islands, and wherever 

 isolated in uninhabited countries they have had 

 occasion to display that energy and activity 

 which are the true riches of a planter. 



The Canarians are fond of considering their 

 country as forming part of European Spain, and 

 they have added some portion to the riches of 

 Castilian literature. The names of Clavijo, au- 

 thor of the Pensador Madritense, of Vieyra, 

 Yriarte, and Betancourt, are honourably distin- 

 guished in the scientific and in the literary 

 world. The Canarians are endowed with that 

 liveliness of imagination, which characterizes the 

 inhabitants of Andalusia and Grenada ; and we 

 may be led to hope, that, at some future period, 

 the Fortunate Islands, like every other climate 

 of the Globe, either where man reposes on the 

 lavish bounties of Nature, or shrinks from the 

 severity of her frown, will inspire the muse of 

 some native poet. 



END OF VOL. I. 



