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lies Southward, called The Mountain of the Three 
Rivers. Here we met feme negroes carrying brim- 
ilone to fell it in the low- lands. We walked in the 
fame favannah, and among the fame weeds, which 
grew fo thick, that we could not difcover the nature 
of the foil. 
We went on, about the length of 400 paces, when 
we began to get fight of the windward, or of the 
Raftern coaft of the ifland. Having like wife di (co- 
vered the burning gulph to the Northward of us, we 
crawled up to get at it. We were obliged to 
help ourfelves with our hands, feet, elbows, and 
knees, and to hold by the fern, aloes, and other 
plants, fome of which were prickly, and very 
troublefome. W r e were about an hour and a half’ 
getting up to the hight of about yoo feet; tis true 
we might have taken afmoother way by going round 
about. At laft, quite out of breath, we reached the 
gulph, at the place whence the fmoke iflues. This 
place is at the foot of a deep bank, and may be about. 
2 5 toifes in breadth : there is no grafs to be feen, no- 
thing but fulphur and calcined earth ; the ground is 
full of crevices, which emit fmoke or vapours ; thefe 
cracks are deep, and you hear the fulphur boil. Its 
vapours rifing yield very fine chemical flowers, or a 
pure and refined fulphur. It is chiefly found in thofe 
places where the earth lies hollow, and upon the 
chinks or funnels you fee the fpirit of fulphur run 
down like fair water, and you breathe an intolerable 
fmell of brimftone. The ground is loofe, infomuch 
that we could thruft our canes up to the head, and 
drew them out as hot, as if we had plunged them into 
lime when it is flaking. Having inadvertently run 
4 C 2 our- 
