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S id i ao could not help regretting, that the poet had chosen the pine to
wave over her tomb *, for although now
“ Tiene il cipresso qualche. uccel’ secreto ;
E con venti combatte il pin robusto y
yet the latter is not indigenous to Madeira, and has even been
introduced within the memory of persons now living.
I made a second excursion to Pico Ariero, and sketched the
extraordinary view, of which I could not get even a glimpse in my
first visit. I did this, not merely from its picturesque nature, but
to furnish the geologist with the outline which characterizes
these peaks of basalt and tufa, and to record the names of the
peaks for future travellers, PL. 8 A. I have also added another
sketch, PL. 8 B, which I made at the point where we begin the
descent into the Coural (when visited from the Jardin da Serra),
for the same reasons. The deeply-inclined ledges of the highest
part of Sidrao (which is composed of red tufa with dykes) have
a very extraordinary appearance. It bears W. 34° S., Ruivo
W. 2° S., and the highest point of the Torrinhas, W. 11° N.,
variation allowed. I descended from Ariero about fifty feet below,
and about 1450 feet south of the summit, to get. a reflection
of the Torrinhas in the artificial horizon, and in so doing shut out
the two highest points ; the third highest subtended an angle of
2° 21', which, the horizontal distance from Ariero to the Torrinhas
being 750 P. bra§as, or 5490 E. feet, gives about 5670 feet for the
height above the sea. The horizontal distance from Ariero
to Ruivo. is 8166 feet. The highest point of Sidrao must be
x But Angels, as the high pines wave,
Their half heard “ miserere” sing.
B o w le s ’ Spirit of Discovery, p . 156:
7 Poesie di Lorenzo de Medici.