V$kmk Mountain m St* Vincent*^ ay 
we gained the. top of the peak I had directed ray eorfe to be- 
fore; when 3 in an inftant, we 'were furprllld with one of the 
gran deft and moft awful fcenes I had ever beheld* f was track 
with-it amazingly, as I could not have conceived fuch a very 
large and fo Angularly formed an excavation. It is ii mated on 
the center of the mountain, and where the various ridges 
unite. Its diameter is fomething more than a mile, and its cir- 
cumference to appearance a perfect circle. Its depth from the 
furrounding margin is above a quarter of a mile, and it nar- 
rows a little, but very regularly, to the bottom. Its fides are 
very fmooth, and for the moll part covered with Ihort tnofs, 
except towards the fouth, where there are a number ot final I 
holes and rents. This is the only place where it is poflihle to 
go down to the bottom : it is exceedingly dangerous, owing to 
the numberlefs fmall chafms. On the weft fide is a fedion of 
red rock like granite, cut very fmooth, and of the fame decli- 
vity with the other parts. All the reft of the furrounding fides 
feems to be compofed of fand, that looks to have undergone 
the a&ion of intenfe fire. It has a cruft quite fmooth, of 
about an inch thick, and hard almoft as rock ; after breaking 
through which, you find nothing but loofe fand. In the center 
of the bottom is a burning mountain of about a mile in cir- 
cumference, of a conic form, but quite level. On the fum- 
mit, out of the center of the top, arifes another mount, eight 
or ten feet high, a perfect cone ; from its apex iffues a column 
of fmoke. It is compofed of large maftes of red granite-like 
rock of various fizes and Ihapes, which appear to have been 
fplit into their prefent magnitudes by fome terrible convuifion 
of nature, and are piled up very regular. From.moft parts of 
the mountain ififue great quantities of fmoke, .. efpecially on the 
north fide, which appears to be burning from top to bottom, 
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