The interior of the crater of Pico de Teide, Tenerife. Etching by P. Parboni after J.G. Gmelin after A. von Humboldt.

An excursion to the Peak of Teneriffe, in 1791; being the substance of a letter to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. F.S.A. from Lieutenant Rye, of the Royal Navy

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