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north ; also in the rock of the south side of the head of the 

 Larakai valley leading from the west side of the great crater; 

 and in a crevice l)elo\v the rim of the crater on the southwest 

 side. The volcanic bombs of the Soufriere do not show the 

 "bread-crust" surface as typically as the bombs of Pelee. The 

 Soufriere lava is a heavier, blacker material than that of Pelce. 

 No stream of molten lava has issued from either volcano during 

 the present series of eruptions. 



The western or leeward side of the mountain still presents 

 differences from the eastern or windward side. In May and 

 June, 1902, the material coating on the leeward slopes seemed 

 finer in grain than that on the windward slopes. The leeward 

 slopes, especially of the upper half of the mountain, were slippery 

 witli deep mud, while the coating on the windward side was mucli 

 looser in texture and there was little of the cement-like mud 

 below the summit plateau. The eruption of September, 1902, 

 left on the leeward slopes a hard, gravelly surface on which 

 there are countless cindery black bombs of all sizes up to eight 

 or ten inches in diameter. Tlie September eruption did not 

 have much effect upon the windward side ; but the material from 

 the OctoVier eruption passed, for the most part, in that direction, 

 without, however, changing the loose character of the coating 

 on the slopes. 



The great crater of Mt. Misery on the island of St. Christopher 

 (St. Kitts) shows, on a smaller scale, just what the Soufriere 

 was before IMay, 1902 ; and St. Eustatius (Statia) is another 

 example of the same kind, though on a still smaller scale. Both 

 are great open pits or calderas, entirely surroimded by walls of 

 very irregular height. The crater of St. Eustatius contains no 

 body of water; but that of Mt. Misery has within it a shallow 

 lake, except toward the end of the dry season. The volcano of 

 St. Eustatius is entirely extinct, but Mt. Misery has a considerable 

 solfataric area (called a "sulphur" by the English West Indians) 

 along the northeast wall of its crater. Bombs occur on the 

 slopes of the St. Eustatius volcano which are closely similar to 

 those thrown out by St. X'incent's Soufriere during the recent 

 eruptions. 



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