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plied, when their common refervoirs, which they 
prepare for cooling their liquors, fail them. 
At fomewhat more than a quarter of a league’s 
diftance from the cave, we came to a plain of fand ; 
from the middle of which arifes a yellowifh pyramid 
of fand or cinders, which the inhabitants call La 
PericoJ'a , and we The Sugar-loaf ; around the balls 
whereof perfpire vapours inceffantly. The Sugar- 
loaf is about an eighth part of a league to the top, 
which is very difficult of afeent, occafioned by the 
loofe foil, and fteepnefs of the road. About eight 
o’ clock in the morning we gained the fummit or 
caldera. It is about twelve or fifteen feet deep : the 
fides, Hoping down to the bottom, form a concavity, 
or crater , refembling a truncated cone, with its bafe 
uppermoft. The crater feems nearly circular ; its 
diameter about forty fathom. The ground is very 
hot ; and from near twenty fpiracula , as from fo 
many chimneys, you perceive a fmoke or vapour of 
a ftrong fulphureous fmell. The whole foil feems 
mix’d or powder’d with brimftone, which forms a 
beautiful colour’d furface. 
There is one of the rocks, which forms a fort of 
vault or nich ; againft which the vapour condenfing 
produces what the inhabitants call Azufre de Got a, 
or Drop-Brimftone. The nich, againft which the 
vapour is condens’d, is of a greeniffi colour, fpark- 
ling with yellow like gold. The fame colour you 
perceive on almoft all the Hones thereabout. A fmall 
part of the Sugar-loaf is white like lime *, and another 
leffer part there is, whofe internal fubftance feems a 
fort of red clay, and whofe fuperficies is cover’d with 
a fait. 
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