j} 6 Mr . Anderson*s Account of a 



peak from which I hud my C\v^ vkw of k, and ffotn' which ! 

 could Ice Its diffl?reut parts, I could not help reviewing it 

 feveral times. After Imprinting its fl:ru(5lure on my mind, I 

 rook my final adieu of it, and returned down, and got to Mr.. 

 Fr ASER*s houfe about feven at night, much fatigued. 



I am forry I had no inftruments, to take the ftate of the air-^ 

 'nor the exacl; dimenflons of the different parts of the moun-* 

 tain; hut, I believe^ on raeafurement, they w4U be more than: 

 i have mentioned. 



From the fituation of thefe iHands to one another, and to the 

 continent of South Araeiica, I imagine there are fub-marine 

 communications between the burning mountains or vokanoeg 

 in each of them, and from them to the volcanoes on the high 

 inoimtalns of America, The iflands, which are fituated next 

 the continents feem to tend in the diredion of thofe moun- 

 tains ; and I have obferved, that the crater in this ifland lies 

 nearly in a line with Soufriere in St. Lucia and Morne Pelee in 

 ^Martinique, and I dare fay from Morne Pelee to a place of the 

 fame kind in Donrfinique, and from it to the others ; as it is cer- 

 tain there is fomething of this kind in each of thefe iflands, 

 Barbadoes and Tobago excepted, which are quite out of the 

 range of the refl. 



There is no doubt but eruptions or different changes in fome 

 of them, although at a great diftance, may be communicated 

 to and affe61: the others in various manners. It is obferved by 

 the inhabitants round thefe burning mountains, that fhocks of 

 earthquakes are frequent near them, and more fenfibly felt 

 than in other parts of the ifland, and the fhocks always go in 

 the dire^Vion of them. 



I cannot omit mentioning this great affiftance I received in 

 the above excurfion from Dr. Young, Mr. Maloune, and Mr. 



Fraser; 



