La nuage qui couvre cet arbre ne se dissipe pas; settlement dans les grandes chaleurs de l'ete il se diminue un peu; mais en echange la mer envoie une vapeur epaisse, qui se jette sur l'arbre, et qui supplee a ce manquement." Du Bois Geogr.Part.iii.ch.17.

Can all this have arisen from Pliny's arbores ex quibus aquae exprimantur ?] [*** See Captain Glasse's elaborate account of the Canaries, and Captain Cook's last Voyage.] The capital of Teneriffe is Laguna, or more properly San Christoval de la Laguna, St.Christopher of the Lake, so called from its situation near a lake.

Both this and Santa Cruz are built of stone, but the appearance of the latter is more pleasing than that of Laguna.

They are distant from each other about four miles.

The capital of the Great Canary, and properly of the whole government, is the City of Palms: But that place has been for some time the centre of ecclesiastical government only.