PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
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fertile country, a climate several degrees cooler than that of Santa 
Cruz, and every species of produce more abundant and forward than 
at the port ; and though the road is bad, few will regret having en- 
countered its difficulties. The celebrated Peak of Teyde is the great 
object of curiosity which engages the attention of travellers to the 
Canary groupe, and we experienced much mortification at not having 
It in our power to ascend it. To have added our mite toward the 
determination of its altitude by barometrical measurement, was a con- 
^ P ooked , but, circumstanced as we were, it was not 
of sufficient importance to justify the detention of the ship; and we 
were o ige to console ourselves with the hope that we should shortly 
visi p aces less known, and where our time, consequently, would be 
more usefully employed. 
feneriffe is an island which lies in the track of all outward-bound 
s ips rora Europe, and most voyagers have touched at it ; being the 
first object of interest they meet, their zeal is naturally more excited 
there, than at any subsequent period of their voyage: it is conse- 
quently better described than almost any other island in the Atlantic, 
an nothing is now left for a casual visiter, but to go over their ground 
or his own gratification or improvement. My observations for the 
determinat ion of the latitude and longitude of the place, &c. were made 
m e Saluting Battery, hut they are omitted here, as I purpose, 
roughout this volume, to avoid, as far as possible, the insertion of 
siderrf "•'ich, by the majority of readers, are eon. 
f™ an to the narrative, and are interesting only to a 
trri* h; therefore he inserted in the Appendix. On the 
Wellesley sailed for Rio Janeiro with His Ex- 
cellency Sir Charles Stuart; and on the Sth, having procured what sun 
phes we required, we weighed, and shaped a course for the same nW 
From our anchorage we had been daily tantalised with a glLpse 
only of the very summit of the Peak, peeping over a nearer rLoe of 
mountains, and the hazy state of the weather on the day of ou- 
departure made us fearful we should pass on without beholdino IZ 
more of It; but towards sunset, when we had reached some mUes 
Irora the coast, we were most agreeably disappointed by a fair view 
B 2 
June, 
1825 . 
