Article Nº 2177 Foreign visitor or author on Madeira Vol. II · p. 575
Maclaren (Duncan)
Duncan Maclaren was a foreign visitor who stayed in Madeira from October 1844 to summer 1845 and wrote 'A visit to Madeira and Tenerife'. His account gives figures on the number of foreign visitors and English residents at that time.
He stayed in Madeira from October 1844 until the summer of 1845 and wrote a short work entitled A visit to Madeira and Tenerife. According to this work, 250 foreigners visited Madeira from 1844 to 1845, a figure that includes the invalids and the friends and servants who accompanied them. In the two preceding years the number of visitors had been between 300 and 400, and at that time some 300 English people were resident on the island.
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