Crossword-Solution: MADERA 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Again Ometepec is nearly pure Aztec for Two Peaks, but the island itself only contains one, and the name was probably given by an invader who saw the two peaks of Ometepec and Madera from the shore of the lake, and thought they belonged to one island.

Beyond the plain in the grey distance were the waters of the lake and the peaks of Ometepec and Madera.

Sera la poblazon, de dozientos vezinos Españoles, con casas de madera, tiene Cabildo, de dos alcaldes ordinarios, ocho rejidores, alguazil mayor y sus oficiales.

The Portuguese of the Amazon carry small quantities of Madeira wine, from time to time, to the Rio Negro; and the word madera, signifying wood in the Castilian language, the monks, who are not much versed in the study of geography, had a scruple of celebrating mass with Madeira wine, which they took for a fermented liquor extracted from the trunk of some tree, like palm-wine; and requested the guardian of the missions to decide, whether the vino de madera were wine from grapes, or the juice of a tree.

Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries OF THE ENGLISH NATION, MADE TO THE ILANDS OF MADERA AND OF THE CANARIES.