32 THE SOOFFE'-ERE MOUNTAIN. 
ikes ill the vicinity. The whole country for three le-ig' 
round was in flames, which were increased by |, 
volcano opening by at least thirty difterent vents within ^ 
circumference of half a mile. On the 2nd of 
following, another volcano broke out in the town of 
mar, swalloit'ing up a large church. 
A subseq^uent eruption in 1706 filled up the pot | 
Guarachico. The lava, in its descent, ran five league’ll, 
six hours ; and on this lava houses are now built wh 
ships formerly rode at anchor. Neither of these erup^' 
were from the crater on the summit ot the peak, 
has not ejected lava for centuries, and it now issues h 
the flanks only. The last eruption was on the Qth of 
179 s, and was very terrible. Three new mouths ope'^ 
at the height of 8,130 feet, • upwards of a mile and 
above the level of tire sea, upon the inclined slope ot 
base of tlie Peak towards the S. W. Above this, at 
height of 10,240 feet, nearly two miles, M. Cordier w ^ 
a vast crater nearly four miles and a half in circumfere^ ^ 
which he ascertained to be very ancient. Its sides 
tremely steep, and it still presents the most frightful pi^. ^ 
of the violence of subterraneous fire. The Peak rises 
the sides of this monstrous aperture. To the S. W. j 
mountain of Cahorra, which is said to have become a 
canoinl797. The other mountains of Tenerifte, 
tradition reports to have been formerly volcanoes, at 
Roxo, or the red mountain ; several mountains, calv' 
Malpasses, lying to the eastward ; and one, in a souu^ 
direction, named Rejada. Throughout the whole ot ^ 
distance between Monte Roxo and the bay ot AdexC) 
cording to Mr. Glass, the shore is about 2500 teet, 
naif a mile, in height, and perpendicular as a wall. , , 
southern coast has a much superior elevation, the cht" j. 
mountains by which it is bounded being, agreeably 
Vincent, 8,320 feet, more than a mile and a half, aboV® 
level of the sea. 
THE SOUFFRIERE MOUNTAIN, 
IV THE ISE.VND OF ST. VINCENT. 
This volcanic mountain, the dreadful eruption of 
we are about to describe, is the most elevated aP“ 
