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tomical specimen, which is now the property of the 
Zoological Museum of Liverpool University College. 
Space will not admit of more than a mention of a visit 
to Telde, a little picturesque town remarkable for its many 
tall palm trees and a large garden open to visitors full of 
gorgeous shrubs and flowers. 
The Canaries have been aptly likened to a rat-trap, 
being very easy to reach but not so easy of escape from, 
for the return steamers arrive with lttle warning, and are 
usually well laden with passengers from the various African 
ports, as experience taught us. 
After a week at Grand Canary we returned to Teneriffe, 
in order to visit Orotava, on the north side of the island. 
A seven hours’ coach drive led us thither from Santa Cruz, 
via Laguna, a cool summer resort 2000 feet above the sea. 
The Puerto or port of Orotava, distinct from the Villa or 
old town of Orotava which is two miles inland, is grandly 
situated almost under the shadow of the Peak. But the 
view of it from here is disappointing, on account of the 
long dark stretch of Mount Tigayga which fills up the 
foreground, cutting off the bottom of the Peak, and leaving 
only a conical hill in the centre. The ascent can be made 
on horse-back to within 1500 feet of the summit, the 
highest point being a small cluster of rocks at the edge of 
a crater which constantly emits hot sulphurous fumes, as 
though to remind the adjacent dwellers that it may yet 
again burst out with renewed activity. It is I believe 
exactly a hundred years since its last effort, and it might 
afford a grand centenary exhibition. The Cafadas, the 
bed of the old crater, is a long flat surface 7750 feet above 
the sea, and is covered with yellow pumice. Professor 
James Geikie, the advantage of whose company we had 
during most of our journey, thinks it probable that at 
some former period the Peak was very much higher than 
