volcanic Mountain in St. Vincent's. 29 



mice-ftone. I alfo found many jftones about the llze of a man's 

 fill, rough, on one fide blue, which appearance, I imagine, 

 they have got from heat, and being in contadi witli fome 

 ininerah Thefe ftones are fcattered over the whole mountain, 

 one or two of which I have ferit you, with fome others. 



After I had got up from the bottom of the crater, I could not 

 help viewing it with admiration, from its wonderful {Irudure 

 and regularity. Here 1 found an excavation cut through the 

 mountain and rocks to an amazing depth, and with as mucli 

 regularity and proportion of its conflituent parts, as if it had 

 been planned by the hand of the moft Ikilful mathematician. I 

 wlfhed much to remain on the mountain all night, to examine 

 its feveral ridges with more attention next day ; but 1 could not- 

 prevall on my companion to f!:ay, and therefore thought it 

 advifable to accompany him. 



I obferved the motion of the clouds on this m.ountain to be 

 very fingular. Althongh there are feveral parts on it higher 

 than the mouth of the crater, yet I faw their attra6lIon was 

 always to it. After entering on its eafl: or windward fide, they 

 funk a confiderable way into it ; then, n:iounting the oppofite 

 fide, and whiiling round the north- weft fide, they ran along a. 

 ridge, \vhich tended nearly north-eaft, and afterw-ards funk 

 into a deep ravin, which divided this ridge from another on the- 

 north-weft corner of the mountain, and the highefton it, lying 

 in a diredllon nearly fbuth and north. They keep thecourfe of 

 this ridoe to the fouth end, and. then whirl oiT weft in their, 

 natural courle. 



I took my departure from the mountain with great reluctance,- 

 Although I encountered many difficulties to get up, yet it 

 amply rewarded me for all my toil ; but I had not time to 

 examine it with- that attention I wifticd. When I got on the: 



peak. 



