45 8 The National Geographic Magazine 



appendix 



The following additional notes re- 

 garding La Soufriere have been derived 

 from private letters and other sources 

 since the foregoing article was sent to 

 the printer : 



From a pamphlet by Mr Huggins, 

 printed in St Vincent and entitled "An 

 account of the eruptions of the St Vin- 

 cent Soufriere," the following table 

 (page 25) has been taken (see page 445 

 in this number) : 



Table of Soundings in the Crater Lake of the 

 Soufriere in St Vincent Taken by P. Foster 

 Huggins During 1806 to /goo. 



Nov. 1896 



Distance from 

 shore. 



4feet 



6 " 



8 " 



10 fathoms 



20 " 



40 " 



60 " 



100 Lf (about) 



12 feet 



100 '* 



5o " 



40 fathoms 



60 " 



100 " (about) 



Center 



Cose rocks 



40 feet 



80 '■ 



40 fathoms 



60 ' 



80 ■' 



100 " (aboutj 

 Center 



20 fathoms 



4 feet from rock. 

 20 " " " . 

 60 " " " . 



Point 



from 



which 



taken. 



West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 West.. 

 Kast .. 

 Hast .. 

 East .. 

 East .. 

 East .. 

 East .. 

 East .. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 South. 

 North. 

 North. 

 North. 



Depth. 



'4 feet 

 6 " 

 23 " 



25 fathoms 

 35 

 53 

 83 " 



40 feet 

 112 " 

 150 " 



47 fathoms 



78 



2'A 



6 

 28 J4 



52 

 60K 

 74 

 81 



87^ 

 36 

 5 

 16 

 43 



From T. MacGregor MacDonald, 

 Esq. : On Tuesday, August iy, three 

 3'oung men by the name of Richards 

 (residents of Kingstown) ascended the 

 mountain, and found the crater to be in 

 apparently the same condition as we 

 found it May 31. Mr MacDonald as- 

 cended a few days later, and found the 

 same, except for greater volumes of 

 steam rising. 



Paul Chastenet (communicated by 

 Mr MacDonald) states that at 9.25 



p. m. , August 30, " halos " appeared 

 in atmosphere near Chateaubelair at the 

 time when detonating noises (from 

 Mont Pelee) were being heard in St Vin- 

 cent. Two circular concentric bands of 

 light came toward the town from La 

 Soufriere. When near the town the 

 bands expanded and separated into four 

 concentric rings and faded away toward 

 Chateaubelair Island. These would 

 seem to be an electrical phenomenon. 



Wednesday night and Thursda}' morn- 

 ing, September 3 and 4, occurred the 

 eruption already referred to in the body 

 of this article. The notch in the crater 

 rim on the west side over Larakai Val- 

 ley seemed to Mr MacDonald to have 

 been enlarged by this eruption. On 

 September 6, at 4 p. m., a column of 

 dust-laden steam rose from the crater to 

 an elevation of between five and ten 

 thousand feet. On September 12 steam 

 was rising vigorousi} 7 from the western 

 part of the crater, and during the after- 

 noon of the 1 3th there were several lofty 

 discharges, sometimes from the western 

 side of the crater, sometimes from the 

 eastern, and sometimes from the middle. 



September 14, 8.25 p. m., vigorous 

 and continuous escape of steam, five to 

 ten thousand feet into air, from western 

 side of crater ; mountain entirely free 

 from atmospheric clouds. 



September 17, Messrs J. Adams and 

 W. Cummings ascended the mountain. 

 They found the crater filled with lapilli 

 to about the level of the old lake, as it 

 existed before Ma} r 7. There was a slop- 

 ing surface from all sides toward a de- 

 pression in the middle. This slope could 

 have been descended from almost any 

 point of the rim. Steam was issuing 

 from several openings, but most vigor- 

 ous^ from the extreme east of the cra- 

 ter. Around the central opening there 

 was " mud," and from the opening 

 ' ' fire ' ' [incandescent stones ?] was be- 

 ing discharged to moderate heights at 

 intervals of two or three minutes. Cum- 



