334: E. O. Hovey — Eruptions of 1902 of La Soufriere, 



mountain, and is noticeable in sorae of the photographs. ISTo 

 stream of molten lava has issued yet from the volcano as a 

 feature of this eruption, though such flows were common in 

 the early history of Pelee, as they were in that of St. Vincent's 

 Soufriere. The bread-crust bombs prove, however, that much 

 lava has been thrown out in the condition of half-melted 



Figure 3. — '' Breadcrust" Bomb from Mt. Pelee. 

 Collected on the Seche-Blanclie plateau, three miles from the crater. The 

 specimen is two feet two inches high. 



masses. These bombs usually are more or less pumiceous in 

 texture, and they show the " bread-crust " surface much more 

 distinctly than do the more basic bombs of the Soufriere. 

 The largest of the bombs observed was one fifteen feet long 

 on the southeast slope of Morne Lacroix at an elevation of 

 3950 feet above the sea. The largest ejected block that we 

 saw was one on the surface of the mud-flow between the rivers 



