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III, Aa Recount of Morne Garqu, 4i Mountain tn the IJland tf 

 St. Vincent, with a JOefcription of the Volcano on its Summit, 

 In a Letter from Mr, James Anderfon, Surgeon^ to Mr. 

 Forfyth, His Majejlfs Gardener at Kenfington ; communis 

 cated. by the Right Honourable Sir George Yonge, Bart. 

 W* R. S, 



Read November i8, 1784, 



THE many ridges of mountains which interfed this ifland 

 in all directions, and rife in gradations, one above the 

 other, to a very great height, with the rivers tumbling from 

 their lides over very high precipices, render it exceeding difficult 

 to explore its interior parts. 



The moft remarkable of thefe mountains is one that termi- 

 nates the N.VV. end of the ifland, and the higheft in it, and 

 has always been mentioned to have had volcanic eruptions from 

 it. The traditions of the oldeft inhabitants in the ifland, and 

 the ravins at its bottom, feem to me to vindicate the aflertioii 

 As I was determined, during my ftay in the ifland, to fee as 

 much of it as I could ; and as I knew, from the altitude of 

 this mountain, there was a probability of meeting with plants 

 on it I could find in no other part of the ifland ; I fliould 

 have attempted going up if I had heard nothing of a volcano 

 being on it. But viewing the mountain at a difl:ance, the 

 ftrufture of it was different from any in the ifland, or any I had 

 feen in the Wefl Indies. I could perceive it divided into many 

 2 different 



