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fbmetimes thd-true Spirit of Sulphur didills> as they fay, 
but it did noc-drop whilfti was there. 
The Report is falfe about the Difficulty of breathing 
upon the Top of this place 5 for we breath’d as well as if 
we had been below ; we eat our Breakfad there,' and I was 
up in all for about two Hours and a quarter. 
Without doubt the Quickfilver would have fell very 
much upon this high place, if I had had but the good 
fortune to have got a couple of Barometers to try. But 
there is no* iuch thing in this Ifland, and I was fearful of 
not getting Company in the mind to go up with me ano- 
ther Year (for to go up by ones felf is very chargeable) 
elfe I would have fent to England to have been fupply’d, 
•tho’ the Expence had come all out of my own Pocket. 
Before the Sun rofe 1 think the Air was as cold as I have 
known it in England , in the (harped Froft I was ever in ; I 
could fcarceiy endure my Gloves off There was a great 
Pew all the while vTe were there till Sun rifing, which 
•we could find by the Wetnefs of our Cloachs 5 but the 
Sky look’d thereabouts as clear as poflible. 
A little after Sun rifing we faw the Shadow of the 
'Pike upon the Sea, reaching over the Ifland of Gomera ; 
and the Shadow of the upper part, viz. of the Sugar-loaf , 
we faw imprinted like another Pike in the Sky it felf, 
which look’d very furprizing : but the Air being cloudy 
below us, we faw none of the other Iflands but Grand 
Canaria and Gomera. 
At fix on Tburfday Morning we came down from the 
Top of the Sugar-Loaf; at feven we came to the Cidern 
of Water which is reported to be without Bottom: this 
the Guide fays is falfe, for about feven or eight Years 
ago, when there was a great Fulcano in this Country, the 
Cave was dry and he walk’d all about it, and faid that 
the deepeft part of Water, when we were there, was not 
above two Fathoms. 
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