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tBe towns and plantations, may be regarded as the real island, whose regular 

 verdant slopes culminate in the arid grey peak of Mount Misery (4,330 feet), so 

 named from the torrents which during the rains rush down the gorges and deluo-e 

 the plantations. Since the emancipation it has also borne the name of Mount 

 Liberty. The seafarers formerly fancied they detected in its outlines a vague 





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resemblance to St. Christopher bearing the infant Jesus, as in the Christian 

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The crater, about 1,000 feet deep, has been quiescent since the close of the last 

 century, and in the rainy season is transformed to a lake fringed with palms and 

 other trees ; but hundreds of fissures on the flanks of the mountain still continue 

 to emit sulphurous gases. Brimstone Hill, one of the parasitic cones, 780 feet 



