Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands (q.v.), of volcanic formation, with cliff-bound coast; richly fruit-bearing; chief exports, cochineal, tobacco, and wine; capital, Santa Cruz (q.v.); most notable natural feature is the famous Peak of Tenerife, a conical-shaped dormant volcano, 12,000 ft. in height, at the summit of which there is a crater 300 ft. in circuit; last eruption took place in 1798.
Population (circa 1900) given as 108,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tenedos * Teniers, David