Bentley's Miscellany (Volume 28) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nine feet; the trunk is hollow, and the opening, now filled with stones, is thirteen feet in diameter. Two young shoots have sprung out of the cavity and attest the vigour of its extreme old age. Unfortunately one side of its top was broken off in the storm of the 21st July, 1819. In conclusion, a few general remarks on the salubrity of Teneriffe and its accommodation may not be unacceptable. It is infinitely cheaper: in many respects offers advantages to invalids superior to Madeira. Some friends of mine, who were staying at AI, Guerin's, in the Praza Constitutional, the best hotel in Santa Cruz, informed me that their daily expenses, including wine, board, and lodging, were only a dollar a day. I, being a bird of passage, was charged somewhat higher, but very reasonably. The accommodation for invalids a few years ago, as regards boarding-houses, was but limited: it is, I understand, better now. Funchal being the only town in Madeira, visitors have neither choice nor variety; at Teneriffe they may pass the time either at Santa Cruz or Oratava, one of the loveliest spots under the sun, and both towns are more cleanly than Funchal. To persons of a social disposition, the society of Teneriffe has superior recommendations, for there the wealthier inhabitants are very friendly towards English visitors, whilst at Madeira a line of demarcation is strictly drawn between the Portuguese and British. The climate of Teneriffe is much drier and somewhat hotter than that of Madeira, but the heat is not excessive. Several invalids, suffering from affections of the muopus membranes of the lungs, and who had tried both islands, assured me that they felt easier and respired more freely at Teneriffe. With respect to provisions, the poultry and eggs are particularly fine there, and although the...