The Peak of Teneriffe not very Active again

Abstract

WITH reference to my notice in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 315, bating, on the authority of a native lady in Santa Cruz, that the Peak of Teneriffe was active again, even to the extent of exuding a red-hot lava stream from near its summit, I am informed now from a higher scientific authority, viz. a Cambridge man, and high Wrangler there in his day, but since then resident in Teneriffe, near Puerto Oratava, for fifty years, that that view was exaggerated. I hasten, therefore, to present to your readers exactly what this venerable and experienced man has to say, without altering a word, so far as the extract goes:—