AiJgdi. * have not the leaft reafon to doubt. From him I learnt
— v—-> fome particulars, which, during the ihort flay o f three days,
did not fall within my own obfervation. He informed me, that
a lhrub is common here, agreeing exaitly with the defcrip-
tion given by Tournefort and Li imams, of the tea Jlirub, as
growing in China and J'apan. It is reckoned a weed, and
he roots cut thoufands of them every year, from his vineyards.
The Spaniards, however, of the ifland, fometimes
ufe it as tea, and afcribe to it all the qualities o f that imported
from China, They alfo give it the name of tea ; but
what is remarkable, they fay it was found here when the:
iflands were firft difcovered.
Another botanical curiolity, mentioned by him, is what
they call the impregnated lemon *. It is a perfect and diftinft
lemon, inclofed within another, differing from the outer
one only in being a ljyle more globular. The leaves o f the
tree that produces this fort, are much longer than thofe of
the common one; and it was reprefented to me as being
crooked, and not equal in beauty.
From him I learnt alfo, that a certain fort of grape growling
here, is reckoned an excellent remedy in phthifical
complaints. And the air and climate, in general', are remarkably
healthful, and particularly adapted to give relief
in fuch difeafes. This he endeavoured to account for, by
its being always in one’s power to procure a different temperature
of the air, by refiding at different heights in the
ifland ; and he exprefled his furprize that the Engliih phy-
ficians fhould never have thought of fending their oon-
fumptive patients to Tenerifle, inftead o f Nice or Liibon.
* The Writer of the Relation dfTenenffe, in Sprats Hijlory, p. 207, takes notice of this lemon as produced here, and calls it Pregnada. Probably, emprennada, the Spa-,
niih word for impregnated, is the name, it goes by,
4 How
How much the temperature o f the air varies here, I myfelf M
u d fenfiby perceive, only in riding from Santa Cruz up to J Z Z
Laguna; and you may afcend till the cold becomes intolerable.
I was aflured that no perfon can live comfortably
within a mile o f the perpendicular height of the Pic after
the month of Auguft * ’ r
Although fome fmoke conftantly iflbes from near th,
top of the Pic, they have had no earthquake or eruption of
, volcano C c e „ o 4, when Ihe ^ J ¡ g g » M |
much o f their trade trar formerly earned on, was deflto"!
i ’ 1“ !' in t e d ' “ “ I1 Se confideted as very confider-
; ,h'J r“ k“ ‘ forty thoufand pipe, of „ ¡ „ e aTe
annually made; the greateft part o f which is either con-
fumed in the ifland, or made into brandv nnri r ,
Spanifh Weft Indies About fix thoufand pipes wem ex!
potted every year to North America, while the trade w i t h !
¡IB S ISl^ lSS jB J%s SS,he 1980 feet) to the top, is covered with ß,aw eh
phical Tranfaffipns, as quoted above. . ‘ ^ pm " f *he year- See Philofi-
t This port was then fUled up bv the nVero o f ,
a volcano; infomuch that houfes are now built wh " ‘" I ™ fl°Wed into'‘ tfr°m
See Glads H ip . p. 244.. n°W buiIt where | g | formerly lay at anchor.'
of wine and brandy. K| th°ulind P'P«
inhabitants of Teneriffe, when the hft » US> that ^ «mnber o f the
W e may reafonably f„ p J e Z t f C l T n 7" 1 1 1 1 " ° S ^ 96,000
iince Glas vilited the idand, which is a W t S t y N g Q “ ° f » o n
annually confumed, as the common beverafre o f at ft i S °f «-ine
muft amount to feveral thoufand ptpes. There m u ftb Z ft th°Ufand perfonS’
converfion mto brandy; to produce one nine-nf h h c expenditure o f it, by
be diftilied. An attention to thefe particulars wdl enable^ *> Ä P'P6S ° f ™ne muft
account given to Mr, Anderfon, o f an annual c X one to Jud^> that the
foundation in truth. P ce o f 4<>j000 pipes- o f wine, has a
was