resembles that of the volcanoes of Quito and 

 Los Pastos ; craters, with which the subterra- 

 nean fire does not appear to communicate, are 

 ranged on the same line with burning craters, 

 and alternate with them. 



Smaller West India islands, I shall trace in this note the direc- 

 tion of the islands from South to North. — Grenada, an ancient 

 crater, filled with water; boiling springs; basalts between 

 St. George and Goave.— St. Vincent, a burning volcano. — 

 St. Lucia, a very active solfatara, named Oualibou, two or 

 three hundred toises high ; jets of hot water, by which small 

 basins are periodically filled. — Martinico, three great extin- 

 guished volcanoes ; Vauclin, the paps of Carbet, which are 

 perhaps the most elevated summits of the smaller islands, 

 and Montagne Pelee. (The height of this last mountain is 

 probably 800 toises ; according to Leblond, 670 toises ; ac- 

 cording to Dupuget, 736 toises. Between Vauclin and the 

 feldspar-lavas of the paps of Carbet is found, as Mr. Moreau 

 de Joanes asserts, in a neck of land, a region of ancient 

 basalts called La Roche carreej. Thermal waters of Pre- 

 cheur and Lame u tin. —Dominica, completely volcanised. — 

 Guadaloupe, an active volcano, the height of which, according 

 to Leboucher, is 799 toises, toAmie, 850 toises. — Montserrat, 

 a solfatara, fine porphyritic lavas with large crystals of feld- 

 spar and hornblende, near Galloway, according to Mr. 

 Nugent.— Nevis, a solfatara. — St. Christopher's, a solfatara 

 at Mount Misery. — St, Eustatia, a crater of an extinguished 

 volcano, surrounded by pumice stones. (Trinidad, which is 

 traversed by a chain of primitive slates, appears to have 

 anciently formed a part of the littoral chain of Cumana, and 

 not of the system of the mountains of the Caribbee islands. 

 Edwards's History of the West Indies, vol. iii, p. 275* 

 l>auxion Lavaysse, vol. ii, p. 60. 



