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TENERIFFE. 
It lias been freely remarked of travellers in general, 
and perhaps not altogether without reason, “ that they 
have a common usage of extolling each successive 
object of their description as the most wonderful, or 
the most beautiful, or the most curious of all that is 
wonderful, or beautiful, or curious, within their know- 
ledge.” * The author, in reviewing his own admira- 
tion and excitement when for the first time he came 
in sight of the Peak Teneriffe, is willing to risk a 
similar imputation, rather than qualify his superla- 
tives while attempting to idepict the scene. In the 
whole northern hemisphere there is perhaps scarcely 
any natural object of curiosity which can be disco- 
vered to the traveller with more striking effect than 
this singular island, upon whichever side and under 
whatever circumstances it may be approached. There 
is something so grand, so almost supernatural, in the 
appearance of the wild volcanic mountain, towering 
* Hugh Boyd’s Tracts. 
