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48 thirty thouand pipes of wine in a year. As it does not produce a ufficient quantity of corn for the conumption of the inhabitants, a part of the produce of the wines, which are old to trangers as Madeira wine (and indeed they differ very little from it in quality), is expended in the purchae of this indipenably neceary article of utenance.

Although the olive thrives very well in this iland, it is very little cultivated. The different pecies of the palm-tree that are to be met with in ome of the gardens, are cultivated only for curioity.

We had been aured, before our departure from St. Croix, that we hould find the ummit of the peak already covered with now. I had not thought it neceary to take a barometer with me at etting out; but I found at Orotava that I had been led into a mitake; and there I was unable to procure this intrument of obervation.

We purpoed to proceed very early the next morning on our journey. But that happened to be