Teneriffe. “ From this; place) they, saw the town- of-Santa; Cruz,
“ and the shipping in the road/ which is .aiflistanepvn‘ri
“ va> direct lincVrof about twenty-five miles. AoSfecjojnd
“ -barometer-was here^fje^ejived; tft supply- the plaeea-of
“ anoth^fhroken in the. assent. But ik-wasfound that
■ ‘ someof the;quicksilver had-esGaped i< .ari^£]> ^rit?t?ffiiirp)
“ no dependency was tojj^e ^placed on any ofeervations
“ b y it. They continued!t^o houpsi and -a half-upon
“ the Summit of the Peak, "without feeling-’arf^,ilteon-
“ venienee/from heat^or cold. Soon aher.'~sunSEis&g^he
“ Thermometer-, in The shade, was at jfift-y^oj^^d^rees.
* ‘ T h e y descendedjj the S q g |u ^ |fj^ n af|few minute?;
“ running the whole way, which Was foiindTto be the
“ best mode,.-.,
-,i “ At.the. foot? o f the Peak there were^ev-e^aljcaY^ns,
s ‘ in .the , midst;
‘ ‘ tremely co^eT, and frajzen.at th e- edge^oOhecea^i^US.
“ Others, in the winter, are filled with s-Mow,- 'over
| which the sun never/sfiines; and,- thus;] snowfieen*
“ tinues in them, throughput {her yeafar'MtrC I h ^ ^ 1
“ mained till night.
“ Mr. Johnstone,' recollecting- a' differencef o f about
“ six miles in. thoealculationofi the latitudejffasrjgiYsen
“ by Captain Cook, and as it is laid down in the cpllec-
“ tion o f requisite Tables, for the Nautical. Ephemeris,
“ was willing to ascertain the same; and, taking an ob-
“ servation o f a fixed star, found that the latitude was
0
‘ V withinJa inileSof wliat GaptainGookihad asserted it to
“ be'. »'Somehime Kefore, Mr. Jofiliislc^®,! when on board
“/ship in the* offing?,óf Orotava, took the>angles, made
“ b y è line-from the horizonito the summit of the Peak,
“ /at;• two- different «pdts; and, measuring the.distance
“ bètweènethem rhys-the) lo p ’ determined the perpen-
Pgdidular height ofitfie IPeakf tel he two thousand and
“ tweinty-thrgeiEnglish fathoms, being nearly the same
“ ;as: Monsieur de ‘Borda had calculated from à base
“ measured upon land. From the. comparative obser-
“ vations o f Monsieur de Borda’s barometers, upon the
“ Pëah,^iandi!bÿ th^la«#îiéèlJi?Ae..';iriountâin’s height
if came withim two fathoms of the ; gèometrical mea-.
“ sûrement. Mr, Johnstone; computed/- likewise, the
“ distanedtof the Peak fromtheyseaport of Orotava to
‘t^be ten thousand one hundred and eighty fathomis, or,
“ neaxlypsflfYPn.mil^iandra half; bearing south forty-
“ eight degrees west. The variation of thé compass was
“ sixteen degreésitô the westward of the pole.”
The -storm, experienced on the Peak o f TenerifFe by
the-present party, , and which impeded their ascent at
that time, was felt ? severely in the roads o f Santa Cruz.
“ The winter appeared to be there set in ,” as Sir Erasmus
'Gower observes | ;‘ ‘ but its approach was considered
“ premature by at least a month. Several merchant ves-
•“ sels drove, or werfe dragged, from their anchoring
“ ground, together with'their anchors; others parted,
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