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half of the island. At one time St. 

 Vincent was the scene of niuch pros- 

 perity and considerable enterprise, but 

 the sugar industry which gave it suc- 

 cess is almost dead. One writer, com- 

 paring the four most ideal islands of 

 the Caribbees — Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinique, and St. Vincent — says': 

 "The first is grand and gloomy; the 

 second is somber in its mountains, but 

 breaks out into smiling tracts of culti- 

 vated land ; the third combines the fea- 

 tures of the first two and adds the ele- 

 ment of a large and picturesque popu- 

 lation, while St. Vincent has all the 

 natural wonders and beauties of the 

 other three and a certain air of delicate 

 culture which is entirely its own. ' ' 



The disaster of May, 1902, which de- 

 stroyed 2,000 people on the island, is 

 not the first that has befallen St. Vin- 

 cent. Defoe has written a graphic de- 

 scription of a fearful eruption of the 

 great crater in 17 18.* In 18 12 a 

 great volcanic upheaval wrought fear- 

 ful havoc, destroying thousands of lives. 

 This eruption probably terminated the 

 volcanic and seismic disturbances which 

 for two years had been disturbing the 

 region of the Caribbean Sea. 



St. Vincent is a colony of Great Brit- 

 ain. Grenada, the Grenadines, Barba- 

 dos, St. Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, 

 Nevis, and St. Christopher are also 

 British property. Martinique and Gua- 

 deloupe fly the French flag, while Saba 

 and St. Eustatius belong to the Dutch. 



CHILE-ARGENTINA BOUNDARY DIS- 

 PUTE 



THE governments of Chile and Ar- 

 gentina have signed an agree- 

 ment which will probably end the 

 long-standing dispute between the two 



* Defoe's account of the eruption of 171S was 

 published in Mist's Journal on July 5, 171S. 

 It was republished in the "Life and Newly- 

 Discovered Writings of Daniel Defoe," Lon- 

 don, 1S69, and in the New York Evening Post 

 May 31, 1902. 



countries. The principal points of the 

 agreement are : ( 1 ) a treat}' of general 

 arbitration to last ten years ; the arbi- 

 trators shall be two foreign powers, of 

 which Great Britain shall be one ; (2) 

 that each nation shall remain neutral in 

 all questions now pending with other 

 countries ; (3) that the armaments of 

 each republic shall be placed on an equal 

 footing. Landmarks are to be placed 

 on the boundary as it is determined by 

 a technical commission appointed by the 

 arbitrator. 



TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS 



AMONG the recent atlas sheets re- 

 issued by the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey is the Ellis, Kansas, sheet. 

 The map represents a rectangular sec- 

 tion about 27,^ by 35 miles, just west 

 of the center of the state, showing parts 

 of Treco, Ellis, Rush, and Ness coun- 

 ties. 



Another reprint issued by the Survey 

 is the map known as the Huntersville 

 sheet, which covers a portion of south- 

 eastern West Virginia near the state 

 line, including the country adjacent to 

 the towns of Huntersville and Addi- 

 son. 



FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL GEO- 

 GRAPHIC SOCIETY 



AT a regular meeting of the National 

 Geographic Society, May 16, an 

 important change in the by-laws of the 

 Society was unanimously adopted. It 

 was decided to institute a class of ' ' fel- 

 lows ' ' in the Society. This class of 

 "fellows" is to be strictly limited to 

 persons actively engaged in geographic 

 work and who have attained distinction 

 for their achievements in geographic 

 science. By vote of the Society the 

 election of "fellows" is vested in the 

 Board of Managers. No elections have 

 yet been made, and none will be made 

 before the fall of 1902. 



