•'Orthcrl f , MOUNTAIN. 5 ^ 
island of St \°inrpnt'^^'T *'““‘''"2 tlirough tlie West-India 
and violence nf ' .u extraordinary frequency 
lated rhTve ‘"1811, are calcu- 
indicated irmi-K a' ■ . , ' mterini the mountain 
so immediate as to^csTr'^^'^ ’ apprehension was not 
visits to the erater w ! P‘'®vcnt repealed 
than ever. Even on latterly been more numerous 
‘^'-■ding the erunL, 1812, the day pre- 
inaiiied there for gentlemen ascended and re- 
remarked, nor anv a unusual was then 
railier a stronger emissiorf'^'f^- *^'^^v*rence observed, except 
the conical hill, at the bottnm'’nf^H^ interstices of 
have not visited this ro^man "r- ^ those who 
fie»cnpUon of it, as it lately sm ®?'^.'^°"‘l?vful spot, a rfight 
. “ About 2000 feet from t) Previously necessary, 
sale of the mountniif aT I “°«th 
'ts heiglit, opens \ r,. ^i'^ two-thirds of 
half a mile in diamete ' i® somewhat exceeding 
depth. Exacdy in the ^00 and 500 feet in 
a coiiieal hill about 26(1 .‘^^Paoious bowl, rose 
200 in diameter richlv cn^ height, and about 
brushwood, and vines^aboS ''®"®S"ted with shrubs, 
der covered over with ^ halfway up. and the leinain- 
d>e fissures of the coS an ‘"P- ^vom 
white smoke was coneta <i ‘"fi'stices of the rocks, a thin 
nv'’ ' ^'“'sh flame I' occasionally tinged 
Jgnificent amphitheatre sides of this 
nl' ^1*^ ‘'"'1 aromatic shrubs a various ever- 
P an a. On the north and many alpine 
cone were two pieces of™*' °1‘ the base of tlie 
’(-less, the other strono-lv imr,,.’ perfectly pure and 
Fk' *°"el.V and “beautiful* ®tdphur and 
■ y ‘‘’.'""ig by the singulariv m I rendered more 
“habitant of these uppCT of a bird, an 
tun "tl'cr parts of the island~l’ altogether unknown 
opposed to be invisible th i ?^"ce principally called or 
"d^is a species of blackbird°'^'^^ ** ‘^‘^‘“inly has been seen, 
mouiitaui, or since ^1“ 1“®^ convulsion of 
of this wildenier b m ‘*‘^^"tbed the 
cs», beside those which are common 
