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II. An Account of a Journey from the Tort of Oratava 
in the Ifland of Tenerife to the Top of the Tike 
in that IJland , in Auguft lajl 5 with QbferVations 
thereon hy Mr. J. Edens. 
O N Tue/day Augu/l the 13th N. S. at Half an Hour 
pad Ten in the Evening, I, in company of four 
more Englifh and one Dutch-Man, withHorfes and Ser 
vants to carry our Provifion, together with a Guide 
(which is the fame that has conduced all thole that have 
been this Journey for many Years) fet forward from the 
Port of Oratava. The Night being fomewhat cloudy, 
and the Moon in the full at n the Night following. 
At half an Hour pad Eleven we came to the Town of 
Oratava, which is about two Miles from the Port, where 
we dopt for about half an Hour, to get walking Staves to 
aflid us in our afcending the Steep of the Pike. 
AtOne a-Clock on Wednefday Morning we came to 
the Foot of a very deep Rifing, about a Mile and half 
above the Town of Oratava , where it began to clear up ; 
and we faw the Pike with a white Cloud covering the 
Top of it like a Cap. 
At Two a*Clock we came to a plain place in the 
Road which the Spaniards call Dornajito en el Monte verde 
(the little Trough in the green Mountain) focalld l fup- 
pole becaufe a little below this Plain, on the Right hand 
as we went, there is a deep Hollow ; at the upper End of 
which Hollow, there is a Spout of Wood placed in a 
Rock, through which there runs very clear and cool Wa- 
ter, which comes from the Mountains ; and at a Deferent 
a little lower than the Spout there is a Trough into which 
the Water comes. E e e At 
