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III, An Account of Morne Garou, a Mountain In the If and of 
St. Vincent, with a Defcripiion of the Volcano on its Summit . 
In a Letter from Mr, Janies Anderfon, Surgeon , to Mr . 
Forfyth, His Majeftf s Gardener at Kenfington ; communL 
cated by the Right Honourable Sir George Yonge, Bart,, 
F. R. S. 
Read November 18, 1784. 
rr^HE many ridges of mountains which interfefl this ifland 
JL in all directions, and rife in gradations, one above the 
other, to a very great height, with the rivers tumbling from 
their lides over very high precipices, render it exceeding difficult 
to explore its interior parts. 
The moff remarkable of thefe mountains is one that termi- 
nates the N.W. end of the ifland, and the higheft in it, and 
has always been mentioned to have had volcanic eruptions from 
it. The traditions of the oldeA inhabitants in the ifland, and 
the ravins at its bottom, feem to me to vindicate the aflertion 
As I was determined, during my flay in the ifland, to fee as 
much of it as I could ; and as I knew, from the altitude of 
this mountain, there was a probability of meeting with plants 
on it I could find in no other part of the ifland ; I Ihould 
have attempted going up if I had heard nothing of a volcano 
being on it. But viewing the mountain at a diftance, the 
ftructure of it was different from any in the ifland, or any I had 
fieen in the Weff Indies. I could perceive it divided into many 
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