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resembles that of the volcanoes of Quito and 

 Los Pastos; craters, with which the subterra- 

 nean fires 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; boilings 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 tilled. — Martinico, three great extin- 

 guished volcanoes ; Vauclin, the paps of Car bet, which are 

 perhaps the most elevated summits of the smaller islands, 

 and Montagne Pele"e. (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 Jonnes asserts, in a neck of land, a region of ancient 

 basalts called La Roche carrie). Thermal waters of Pre 4 - 

 eheur and Lameutin. — Dominica, completely volcanised.— 

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

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

 a solfatara, fine porpbyritic 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. 

 Dauxion Lavaysse, vol. ii, p. 60. 



