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SHOKTEK AUTilLES AX D L'UJMIESi'UXDE.XCE. 



THE ASCEXDIXG OBELISK OF THE 

 MONTAGNE PELEE. 



The extraordinary shaft, of rock 

 (lava) shown in the illustration now 

 transfixes the newly-constructed cone 



this .year, rose still 180 feet higlier, is 

 being and has been pushed up bodily, 

 the lava solidifying before leaving the 

 interior of the volcano. During the 

 four days immediately preceding June 



of Pelee, and towers above it ujjward \ 17, as determined ly M. Guinoiseau, a 



Obelisk of Pelee. (Photograph by Angelo Heilprin, from the crater-rim of Pel6e, June 



13, 1903 (flevalion, 4,100 leetj. 



of 800 feet, giving to the volcano a , member of the French Scientific Corn- 

 height of 5,020 feet, instead of 4,250 I mission in Martinique, the lift or as- 

 (or 4,400) feet, which it had prior cent was nearly 21 feet, but at an 

 to the erudition of May 8, 1902. This ; earlier day the movement was much 

 unique structure which, on May 31 of more rapid. The obelisk, which meas- 



