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along the windward side of the ridges, whilst on the lee- 
ward side they attain the full growth. 
Dr. Imray had been good enough to lend me an aneroid 
barometer, with which I had hoped to have determined 
the altitude of this mountain, stated to be 5,314 feet high,* 
but from its behaviour, it was evident that no reliance 
could be placed upon the instrument, which was not de- 
signed for ascertaining the height of mountains. At the 
sea level I observed that the aneroid stood at 30.02. When 
we arrived at our camping place on our way up, it showed 
28.16, and when we reached the same place on our way 
down, it was 27.82. As a monument of our visit we left 
a bottle at the top, and I carved my initials on a tree. 
Morne Diablotin, like all the other hills of Dominica, 
seems to be entirely composed of volcanic rocks of different 
kinds, mostly trachyte, and of very variable degrees of 
coherence. The mountain rises abruptly from the sea ; 
I should question if it is accessible from any other direc- 
tion than the one I took — the other sides of the peak 
appearing to be in great part perpendicular cliffs. 
I had an opportunityj before leaving the Island, of see- 
ing some of the stone axes of the aborigines, which re- 
semble those found in Trinidad. Mr. Howard Lloyd 
showed me some fine examples, one of which weighed 
several pounds, and had a broad groove or depression, 
• * According to a fragment of an Almanack published in Domi- 
nica in 1826 or 1827, the following are the heights of the principal 
mountains : 
Morne Diablotin or terre ferme ... 5,314 
Laroche (or Laroque or Piton) . . 4,150 
Kuliabon • . .... ... * 3,379 
I thought that there could not be more than 200 or 300 feet of differ- 
ence between the first and second, and there is seine confusion as to 
their nomenclature. 
