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perpendicular, and penetrates above a hundred paces 
Lo the flat, and is more than twenty feet broad j fo 
that in this place the mountain is fairly fplit, from 
the top down to the bafis of the cone. . 
On the North fide, oppofite to the cleft, and at 
the foot of the mountain, in a little plain, is a pool, 
which is faid to ebb and flow like the fea, and to 
increafe and decreafe at certain times, according to 
the periods of the moon : but people are fond of 
al'cribing wonderful properties to things, which, if 
limply related, would not appear fo extraordi- 
nary For 'my part, I am apt to think this pool 
is formed by the waters that dram along the great 
rleft into this little plain, where the fame earthquake 
has funk a hollow place near the great fubterranean 
cavern of which by and by , and that the variations 
of the water in this pool are occafioned by the rains. 
It was about noon when we got upon the flat, on 
thefummitof the mountain. It looks as if it had 
formerly been of a conical figure, and had loft its 
top by earthquakes. What confirms me in this con- 
ielture is, the pieces of rock, which ftill fubfift, and 
fonn thofe fpires, or little cones, that are mattered 
here and there upon the fummit ; the two moftcon- 
iiderable of which are towards the Weft, and make 
, as it were, a pair of horns to the mountain. 
Hem we dined, and reftcd above an hour. There 
is a mod delightful profpea. _ You difcover bebw 
the iflands of Martimco, Dominica, The Sain s, Ma 
rigalante, and the whole extent of Guadelupa. Tis 
fafd thofe of St. Vincent, St. Kits, and even St. 
Martin have been feen from the top of th s moun- 
tain. Be that as it will, we obferved very diftinft y 
