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Aving furnished our selves with a Guide, Servants, and Horses to carry our Wine and Provisions, we set out from Oratava, a Port Town in the Island of Teneriffe, situated on the North of it, two Miles distant from the main Sea. We travelled from twelve at Night till eight in the Morning, by which Time we got to the Top of the first Mountain towards the Pico de Terroira; here, under a very great and conspicuous Pine-Tree, we brake our Fast, dined and refresh'd our selves till two in the Afternoon; then we proceeded thro' much sandy Way, over many lofty Mountains, but naked and bare, and not cover'd with any Pine-Trees, as our first Night's Passage was. This exposed us to excessive Heat, till we arrived at the Foot of the Pico; where we found many huge Stones, which seem'd to have been fallen down from some upper Part.

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