Teide
a famous dormant volcano, the highest summit in the CANARY ISLANDS (q. v.), in the S. W. of the island of Tenerife, 12,200 feet above sea-level. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered with forests, or laid out in extensive meadows, yielding rich grass; but the upper ridges and peak, properly so called, are wild, barren, and rugged in appearance. The Peak El Piton and its two inferior neighbors, the Montana Blanco and Chahorra (9,880 feet), rise from a rugged circular plain of lava débris and pumice, 7,000 feet above sealevel, about 8 miles in diameter, and fenced in by an almost perpendicular wall of rock. From the crevices sulphurous vapors are constantly exhaling. The wall of the crater at the top is formed of broken and jagged porphyritic lava rocks, is elliptical, 300 feet in diameter, and 70 deep. The color of the whole