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Before rejoining the steamer a visit was paid to the market where 
a fair collection of native-vegetables was displayed for sale, but 
owing to the time of year few fruits were being offered. 
a time unfortunately prevented a visit to Union where 
Mr. Brooks is in charge of the experiment station of some ten to 
fifteen acres in extent. The cultivation in the island is mainly in 
the hands of small peasant proprietors whom it is found difficult to 
rouse to any great energy. 
On the return journey we arrived at Castries after dark and in 
the rain, so that no more could be seen of the island, and it was 
unfortunate that the famous Pitons of St. Lucia were not visible 
owing to our passing them at night both on the northward and 
southward voyages. 
MARTINIQUE. 
We passed sufficiently close to the northern end of Martinique to 
examine with the aid of glasses the condition of St. Pierre and the 
slopes of Mt. Pelee which had been swept by the eruption of 1902. 
The contrast between the appearance in 1903 when I landed 
near St. Pierre and went all over the site of the town and the 
condition of the spot in January last was very striking. The site 
of the town is now covered with vegetation, some plants being of a 
considerable height, and the slopes of the mountain itself are almost 
equally green. The deep cafion-like gorges cut by the water 
courses through the consolidated voleanic ash, however, are clearly 
visible with their barren grey cliffs and there are some delta-like 
patches of grey ash, probably washed down by the torrents, which 
were equally barren. Already some houses have been erected on 
the old site and the remains of the cathedral appeared to have been 
restored. 
he changes brought about by time are doubtless quite 
comparable to those which have taken place on the Soufriere of 
St. Vincent recently described by Sands.* 
DomINICA. 
At Roseau I was met by Mr. J. Jones, Curator of the Botanic 
* W. Ind. Bull., vol. xii, No. 1, 1912, pp. 22-33. 
