^d Mr, ht^-Qm^o-ti^s Account of a 



peak \mm which I had my firft view of It, and fromVwhlch 1 



could fee its dit!t*rcnt parts, I eauld not help rcviewius; it 

 feveral times. After Imprinting its flru(5tute on my mind, I 

 took my final adieu of it, and returned down, and got to Mr« 

 Fji A3E?.\s houfe about {^vcn at nighty much fatigued. 



I am forry I had no inftruments, to take the flate of the air, 

 nor the exacl dimenfions of the different parts of the moua- 

 tain ; but, I believe, on meafurement, they will be more than, 

 I have mentioned. 



From the iituation of thefe illauds to one another^ and to the 

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

 communications between the burning mountains or volcanoes 

 \n each of them, and from them to the volcanoes on the high 

 mountains of America. The iflands, which are fituated next 

 the continent, feem to tend in the diredlion of thofe moun- 

 tains I 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 ^lorne Pelee to a place of. the 

 fame kind in Dominique, and from it to the others ; as it is cer» 

 tain there is fomething of this kind in each of thefe iflandsj 

 Sarbadoes and Tobago excepted^ which are quite out of the 

 range of thfe reil. 



There rs no doubt but eruptions or different changes in fonie 

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

 to and affed'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 diredion of them. 



I cannot omit mentioning the great affiftance I received iii 

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



Fraserj 



