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tolerable. I was allured that no perfon can live comfort- 1776. 
ably within a mile of the perpendicular height of the Pic, AuguiL i 
after the month of Auguft 
Although fome fmoke conftantly iiTues from near the top 
of the Pic, they have had no earthquake or eruption of a vol¬ 
cano lince 1704, when the port of Garrachica, where much 
of their trade was formerly carried on, was deftroyed f. 
Their trade, indeed, muft be confidered as very confider- 
able; for they reckon that forty thoufand pipes of wine are 
annually made, the greateft part of which is either con- 
fumed in the ifland, or made into brandy, and Pent to the 
Spanifh Weft Indies J. About fix thoufand pipes were ex¬ 
ported every year to North America, while the trade with 
it was uninterrupted; at prefent, they think not above 
half the quantity. The corn they raife is, in general, in- 
fufficient to maintain the inhabitants; but the deficiency 
* This agrees with Dr. T. Heberden’s account, who fays that the fugar-loaf part of 
the mountain, or la pericofa (as it is called), which is an eighth part of a league (or 1980 
feet) to the top , is covered with J,now the greatejl part of the year. See Philofophical Tranfac- 
tions , as quoted above. 
f This port was then filled up by the rivers of burning lava that flowed into it from 
a volcano; infomuch that houfes are now built where fhips formerly lay at anchor. See 
Glas's Hifl. p. 244, 
t Glas, p. 34.2, fays, that they annually export no lefs than fifteen thoufand pipes 
of wine and brandy. In another place, p. 252, he tells us, that the number of the 
inhabitants of Teneriffe, when the laft account was taken, was no lefs than 96,000. 
We may reafonably fuppofe that there has been a confiderable increafe of population 
fince Glas vifited the ifland, which is above thirty years ago. The quantity of wine 
annually confumed, as the common beverage of at leaft one hundred thoufand perfons, 
muft amount to feveral thoufand pipes. There muft. be a vaft expenditure of it, by 
converfion into brandy ; to produce one pipe of which, five or fix pipes of wine muft be 
diftilled. An attention to thefe particulars will enable every one to judge, that the ac¬ 
count given to Mr. Anderfon, of an annual produce of 40,000 pipes of wine, has a 
foundation in truth. 
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