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clouds below us. Having travelFd two leagues on 
this foil, wo arrived at eight o’ clock in the evening 
at the Falda del Pico, or foot of the Pic. Here we 
were obliged to leave our horfes ; the road, by rea- 
fon of its fteepnefs and loofe fandy foil, being impaf- 
fable to them. At half a league’s diftance we baited 
under fome large rocks, called La Eftancia de los In- 
glefes, or the Englifh baiting -place, befng firft ufed 
as fuch by fome of our countrymen in afcending the 
• Pic. Here we tarried all night, making fires to tem- 
per the air, which we found very cold. When the 
morning drew near, we proceeded on our journey, 
afcending for a quarter of a league the fame foil (but 
more fte-ep and loofe) till we arrived at fome large 
rocks of mal-payfes (or ftone burnt by a vulcano); 
amongft which, as the ground was more firm, we 
walk’d with lefs trouble, or rather climbed, being 
frequently obliged to make ufe of our hands to help 
us forward. 
Having gone about a quarter of a league in this 
manner, we arrived at the famous cave of Teyde. It 
is furrounded on all fides (or rather buried) with 
large mal-payfes, or vulcanian rocks, between which 
you difcover the entrance about fix feet high, and 
four feet wide. The cave feems to be about fifteen 
feet wide at the entrance j the extremity we could 
not difcover. From its entrance to the furface of the 
water, which covers the bottom, feems to be about 
twelve or fourteen feet. The top and fides of the 
cave are of fmooth ftone. The bottom is cover’d 
with ice or fnow ; above which is a body of water 
about half a yard deep. This cave is the grand re- 
fervoir of fnow of the ifland, whence they are fup- 
