>h k ***'**^'’* WHICH HAVE SISEN FROM THE SEA.IOS 
Very high. Rowing round to the lee side, with 
iiitun j difficulty, by the aid of an oar, as a pole, I 
f '* *hore, and was followed by the other officers, 
side ® narrow beach of black ashes, from v/hich the 
ik(, die island rose in general too steep to admit of our 
of ^ “'“5 ; and where we could have clambered up, the mass 
f ’’ much too hot to allow our proceeding more 
Till j in the ascent. 
ste, 
.5 ’® declivity below the surface of the sea was equally 
P. having seven fathoms water at scarcely tlie boat’s 
‘^hgtli ° seven tathoms water at scaiceiy uie uuais 
‘iiirty ^he shore, and at the distance of twenty or 
we sounded twenty-five fathoms. From 
nirty 
found 
It in 
about twelve minutes, I should judge 
biit\l something less than a mile in circumference ; 
WliicL® ”^ost extraordinary part was tlie crater, the mouth of 
tvitij f! side facing St. Michael's, was nearly le.vel 
iQg,' |?sea.. It was filled with water, at that time boil- 
abom • " emptying itself into the sea by a small stream 
Continp'?. ^®fds over, and by which I should suppose it was 
*? the'^i^ dlled again at high water. This stream, close 
finggf j p of the sea, was so hot, as only to admit the 
d’ately ° ^ dipped suddenly in, and taken out again imme- 
evident, by the formation of this part of 
‘nto tke ’ the sea had, during the eruptions, broken 
places, as the east side of the small 
’'t'cnty bounded by a precipice; a cliff between 
jbe sam„ a- feet high, forming a peninsula of about 
c"'^‘^'”fension in width, and from fifty to sixty 
rldg with the other part of the island by a iiar- 
fifty f! .f^iuders and lava, as an isthmus, ot from forty 
of pi length, from which the crater rose in the 
1 bis 
amphitheatre. 
’■■'Pd k,5’ '’t 
'0 
t() 
two or three miles distance from the 
appearance of a work of art resembling 
The top of this we were dc- 
'tiiin«d”‘Y°f block- house. 
attain ; but the difficulty we had 
51, “'''-■'opt'h so was considerable ; the only way 
that tl "I’ of .the isthmus, which was so 
vd tl) mode by which wo could effect it, w,as 
"cb )V(. of an oar at the base, with the assistance of 
feed ourselves up in nearly a backward direction. 
