Note 472 — Chapter I · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Noticias de la historia general de las islas de Canaria, by D. Jos. de Viera y Clavijo, 4 vols. 4to (Madrid, 1772-83). Humboldt, Examen, ii. 167. D’Avezac, Iles d’Afrique, ii. 22, etc. Les îles fortunées ou archipel des Canaries [by E. Pégot-Ogier], 2 vols. (Paris, 1862), i. ch. 13. Saint-Borondon (Aprositus), pp. 186-198. Teneriffe and its six satellites, by O. M. Stone, 2 vols. (London, 1887), i. 319. This mirage probably explains the Perdita of Honoré and the Aprositos of Ptolemy. Cf. O. Peschel’s Abhandlungen zur Erd- und Völkerkunde (Leipzig, 1877), i. 20. A similar story is connected with Brazil.