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Madeira

Septr. 1768

some other opportunity offers of visiting it again, for the climate is so fine that any man might wish it was in his power to live here under the benefits of English laws & liberty.

The hills here are very high, much higher than any one would imagine, pico ruevo the highest is 5068 ft which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain; indeed as I hinted before the whole Island has probably been the production of a Volcano, notwishstanding which its fertility is amazing, all the sides of the hills are coverd with vines to a certain hight, above which are woods of chestnut & pine of immense extent; & above them forests of wild timber of kinds not known in Europe, which amply supply the inhabitants with whatever they may want, among these some there were whose flowers we

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