THE PEAK OF TENERIFFB 4^ 
an elevation above the lower range 
several small conical hills, or 
'“'’^^noes, the decomposed lava on the 
letwM,^ craters having a strong red ochreous tint. At 
on all sirt" undulated plain spreads itself like a fim, 
Widecl T C‘‘u This plain is 
tlie revitin ■'!,+- If '^''i and south soutli-vvest, bj 
raiiffe'’of ^cf , ^ north-east, by a 
nianv Icnor, Perpendicular precipices and mountains, 
J^aldas ^ '''.circumference, called by the Spaniards Lar 
•show of vegetatlmrilfl.’ T 
-ind ;-L “t™-phcre: the 
1-ngland iu the climate like that of 
''‘lent, and solitary \V^> ” Autumn. All here was sad, 
tlie coast lyino- as ii II ‘I'stance the fertile plains 
«Wul coi trLtHn ti "®''®""derom-teet,and affiirding a 
wore siirr f f of desolation with which 
‘I'e bolt^a ofTe ‘>'u und had reached 
nt the bottom o'f^' l^ the plain, we found onrselve.s 
or current of lava ' r*' ” ’ which is a mass 
“scent of about -Iii 1 ‘'‘'■‘‘‘V' ^‘‘^“'''ciis. not to say hazardous, 
the mules sinking kHIIIfa*“ Pf^'ce “nd ash%iving way, and 
hve in the aftermw step,we arrived at about 
lava, which, descelltV^ r ^^^temity of the stream of 
region of the neaU rii?,M summit of the second 
branches, the one runnin cs at the foot of the cone into two 
to ihe north-west. It w-° i° north-east, and the other 
w. lighting a fire inade 'of'Tl'^u i 
broom, and stretchinir n,,-r „ r ^ branches of the Spanish 
rock, we ate our dimfer and lai^ 
J however passed th,. K ^ wirselves down to sleep, 
weatlier being piercinolf"I.^‘y^ “a‘ ‘t® '*'* 
''‘cw all around^me f ^ 
“bout ten atnigk.^:rrKf'iv""‘^ \be moon rose 
surticient light m -i ' though in her third quarter, gave 
'"'e Were surmn,* I'^'T ' waste and wilderness by which 
^hich We had v If P®**^ ''b* npper regions 
Iwadj, while lio - towered awfully above oar 
' ‘ otv , the mountains tliat had appeared of 
