Identifier: sketcherstourrou00elwe (find matches)
Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert Hullmandel & Walton
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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as rolling in from the Atlantic,and dashed up over the great black lava rocks, long sincefallen down from the mountains, which rose steeply on theother side of the path. A light blue haze, with the sungleaming through it, hung over the cliffs, softeningeverything, though hardly making the outlines less distinct;and the whole formed a perfect picture, but one thatwould require a skilful hand to paint it rightly. At SanVincente, a pretty village embosomed among trees and vines,about two miles from the sea, I found a tolerable inn. Itis rather a central situation, one path leading by the Raba^alto Calheta, another by the edge of the Corral to Funchal.I chose the latter, and found the scenery magnificent. Themountains were very steep, and of the most beautiful forms,covered with wood up to their summits, and enlivened withsparkling torrents. In colour they appeared to be of thedeepest blue, and a few wreaths of smoke rising from theirravines added to the beauty of the scene. Having accom-
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w ^ t. w rC CJ ~r £ 1 1—i > M \ ^ SJ2i en X33 -: < JF^? THE CORRAL. 5 plished the ascent, the road crosses into the valley of SerradAgua, and, skirting this, leads along the ridge dividing itfrom the Corral, which is the central and deepest valley ofthe island. The strength and endurance of the Madeira horses iswonderful. They clamber up the steepest paths with aheavy weight on their backs, and although I sometimes dis-mounted and gave them a few minutes rest—for they ap-peared perfectly exhausted—yet in a couple of minutes theywere quite fresh again, and eating the grass as if nothing hadhappened. The men, also, are equally good at their work,and walk up the hills with immense loads. The view from the western edge of the Corral is trulyunrivalled. As its name signifies, it is a valley enclosed withmountains (corral being, in Spanish or Portuguese, enclosureor fold, and some say the name was given from the nuns of theisland having a fold there). Pico Ruivo fills up the ba

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