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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:—
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SMYTH, C. The Peak of Teneriffe not very Active again. Nature 28, 172 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028172a0
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