1 s si MMIT or mi: BUG u:-i <> \r. 



g formed a wall ol ':. which Btretched 



midst of the I- - 3. They ascended tin' 



Sugar-loaf by grasping the half-decomposed seorii 

 which often broke in their hands. They employi 

 nearly half an hour t" Bcale a hill, the perpendicular 

 height of which waa Bcarcely five hundred and forty feet. 



When they gained the summit <»!' the Sugar-loaf tl 



i !-» find scarcely room enough t<> seat 

 themseh iveniently. They were stopped by a 



i'l circular wall of porphyritdc lava, with a base of 

 pitchstone, which c aled from them the view <»f tlic 

 era* 'I'ii.' wesl wind blew with Buch violence that 

 th< c ild scarcely stand. I' waa i ight in the morning, 

 and they Buffered rely from the cold, though the 



thermometer kept a little above freezing point 



The wall which surrounded the crater like a parapet, 

 was bo high, that it would have been impossible to reach 

 tin' crater itself if. on the eastern Bide, there had not 

 been a breach, which seemed to have been the effect of a 

 flowing of very old lava. They descended through this 

 breach toward the bottom of the runnel, the figure of 

 which was elliptic. The greatest breadth of the mouth 

 appeared t<> them to be three hundred feet, the smallest 



o hundred feet, 



Tl bernal edges of the crater were almost perpen- 

 dicular. They descended to the bottom of the crater on 

 a train of broken lava, from the eastern breach of the 

 in The heat was perceptible only in a few 



. which gave v.-ut to aqueous vapours with a 

 buzzing noise. Some of these funnels or cre- 

 vic ire on theoutsideof the inclosure, on the external 

 brink of the parapet thai Burrounded the crater. Hum- 



