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air and then landing on the mountain slopes and rolling down the hill. These 

 red-hot stones were projected as much as a mile from the crater. 



Suddenly a great yellow or reddish glare lit up the whole cloud mass, a 



Fig. 1. Eruption of Mount Pelee, 4.10 p.m., July 16, 1902. (Photo by T. A. Jaggar, Jr.) 



This photograph was taken from the S. S. Dahnme off Fort de France, looking north. On 

 the right is the slope of the Pi ions of Carbet. The steam column was over six times the appar- 

 ent height of these peaks, and its base was twelve miles away . its crest subtemied a vertical 

 angle of 29° measured with a handlevel. Allowing for bulge, its height was not less than from 

 four to six miles. The upper portion of the cloud, bent to the right (east), has passed through 

 the trade-wind bell and is moving with the counter-current. A 'cauliflower' wall ot dust 

 could be seen moving down to the west at the base of the column, and rolling out from the 

 mountain over the water. 



prolonged angry growl burst from the mountain, not loud, but with a ' snarling 

 character.' A red-hot avalanche rose from the cleft in the hillside and poured 



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