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To Brazil

Septr. 1768

at sunset however its appearance was most truely elegant, the rays of the sun remaining upon it sometime after it was set & the other land quite Black, & giving it a warmth of colour not to be express'd by painting.  T.B.

24. This Morn the Pike appeard very plain & immensely above the clouds, as may well be imagin'd by its hight which Dr Heberden of Madeira who has been himself upon it communicated to us, which is 15,396 feet. above The Dr also says that tho there is no eruption of visible fire from it, yet heat issues from the chinks near the top so strongly that a person who putts his hand upon these is scalded; from him we receivd among many other favours some salt which he supposes to be the true natron or nitrum of the ancients, & some native sulphur

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