A VOYAGE TO 
The Governor of the Canaries, at this time, was the 
Marquis de Brancifort, by birth a SiciHan. He was 
refident as tifual at Santa Cruz, and paid to Governor 
Phillip, and the other officers, a polite attention and 
refpe6t equally honourable to all parties. The port of 
Santa Cruz^ though not remarkably fine, is yet the 
beft in the Canaries, and the ufual place at which veffeis 
touch for refrefliment ; the refidence of the Governor 
General is therefore fixed always in TenerifFe, for the fake 
of a more frequent intercourfe with Europe : in pre- 
ference to the great Canary Ifle, which contains the 
Metropolitan church, and the palace of the Bifliop. The 
Marquis de Brancifort has lately eftabliflied fome ufeful 
manufadtures in Teneriffe, 
' To enter into much detail concerning the Canary 
I Hands, which lie exaclly in the courfe of every 
fliip that fails from Europe to the Cape, and confe- 
quently have been defcribed in almoft every book of 
voyages, muft be fuperfluous. A few general notices 
concerning them may, perhaps, not be unacceptable. 
They are in number about fourteen, of which the 
principal, and only confiderable are, Canary., 7'eneriffe^ 
Fortaventure^ Palma^ Ferroy Gomera^ Lancerotta. Their 
diftance from the coaft of Africa is from about forty to 
eighty leagues. The circumference of TenerifFe is not 
above one hundred and twenty miles, but that of Ca- 
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