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left in protected sjiots on steep slo])es from whieli the asli has l)een 

 removed. Beyond this district, the area which was seriously in- 

 jured by the September and October eruptions has recovered its 

 crops and general verdure. The outbreak of March 22, which 

 deposited three inches of ash in (ieorgetown, according to the 

 newspaper reports, must have destroyed the experimental work 

 which was being done toward the resuscitation of the Mt. Ben- 

 tinck and other estates between Georgetown and the crater. The 

 most impressive change which has taken place on St. \'incent 

 since June, 1902, is the excavation which has been accomplished 

 by the Wallibou, the Rabaka and other rivers in the enormous 

 beds of ash which were left in their gorges by the eruptions. 

 P'rom the gorge of the Wallibou alone not less than 150,000,000 

 cubic feet of material has been carried out to sea in a few 

 months. 



The general impression among local observers is that the 

 crater is considerably larger now than it was in June of last 

 year, especially in the direction from east to west, but the writer's 

 fjhotographs of the great pit which were taken May 31, 1902, 

 look so much like those taken from the same spots March 3 and 

 10, 1903, that it does not seem safe to assert that any great 

 change in the upper part of the crater, at least, has taken place 

 during the intervening months. Some enlargement, however, 

 must have taken place, due to the numberless landslides which 

 have carried portions of the inner walls to the bottom of the 

 crater to be thrown out by a succeeding eruption. Last May 

 the writer estimated the surface of the lake in the bottom of 

 the crater to be about 2200 feet below the highest point of the 

 rim,' but on March 3, 1Q03, he made the lake out to be 2600 

 feet below the same ].)oint. These are mere estimates, however, 

 no accurate measurements being practicable. 



The volcano was showing considerable mild activity early in 

 March, 1903, and some of the local observers, Rev. Thomas Huck- 

 erby of Chateaubelair in particular, were of the opinion that a 



' Dr. T. A. jafi;gar. Jr.. who was a mi-mbcr of the same party, concurred in 

 this estimate, but George Carroll Curtis, also a member of the party, estimated 

 the depth at 2400 feet. 



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