2T2 E. 0. IIove]j—New Cone of Mont PeU. 



Rouge first mention seeing the new cone above the crater rim 

 on August 11 (Lacroix), but no note is made of the existence 

 of a terminal tooth. Heilprin states- that on August 24 he 

 saw horns projecting obliquely from the southwestern part of 

 the new cone, l)ut he does not mention any spine projecting 

 vertically from the top, nor does one of liis photographsf indi- 

 cate the existence of any such feature. He considered the 

 cone to be built up of debris.:}: From the occurrence of the 

 great eruption of August 30, Mont Fele remained covered 

 almost continuously with clouds and steam until early in 

 October. 



On October 10, Lacroix saw from the observatory at Assier 

 the top of the new cone projecting like a cap above the crater 

 rim, and having approximately the same altitude as the 

 remains of Morne Lacroix close by. During the immediately 

 sncceedhig days the cone grew rapidly, stretching in a north - 

 south direction, and attaining an altitude of about 90 meters 

 (295 feet) above the rim of the crater. Examination through 

 a telescope convinced Lacroix that this top was composed of 

 "solid" rock, not debris, and led him§ to advance the idea 

 that Pele now was to be classed as a cuinido-volcano^ a theory 

 which his subsequent observations and those of his colleague 

 Giraud, and of Sapper, || Heilprin^ and the author have fully 

 confirmed. 



October 15, 1902, the same observer*"^ stood on the edge of 

 the great crater, and noted that the new dentate ridge rose 

 then but 50 meters (161 feet) above his view-point, and that it 

 had one tooth notably higher than others. Since this date the 

 prominent spine or tooth has grown wonderfully and varied 

 greatly in size and form from time to time. Occasionally 

 there has been a loss of several or even many meters from the 

 top, but the loss has always been recovered within a short 

 time. On November 8, the 100-meter high tooth with its 

 almost vertical walls, the northeastern side of which looked 



* Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martinique, p. 181. J. B. Lippincott 

 Co., 1903. 



fibid., plate facing p. 288. :{:Ibid., p. 281 and elsewhere. 



§ Comptes Rendus, October 27, 1902. Author's separate p. 2. Idem, 

 December 1, 1902. Author's separate j). 5. 



II Centralblatt fiir Min., Geol. n. Pal., 1908, p. 348. 



^ Communicated in a letter to the author under date of July 10, 1903. 



** Comptes Eendus, December 1, 1902. Author's separate, p. 4. In this 

 account Lacroix speaks of the tooth as being but 100 meters from the eastern 

 edge of the great crater (Morne Lacroix). When one stands on the top of 

 Morne Lacroix, the great spine or tooth seems overpoweringly near at hand; 

 the true relations, however, can be seen best from the south or the north, 

 whence the base of the rock spine is judged by the present writer to be not 

 less than 1 50 meters from Morne Lacroix. Sapper (Centralblatt flir Min, , etc. , 

 pp. 350, 351) has mistaken the position of Morne Lacroix, making it part of 

 the old Somma ring of the volcano, whereas, what there is left of it stands 

 directly on the great crater rim and forms an integral part thereof. 



