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DRS. T. AXDERSON AND J. S. FLETT 02s THE ERUPTIONS OF THE 
In Chateaubelair the deiJtli of the deposit, as measured on the roofs of the houses, 
a day or two after the eruption, varied from 2|- to about 4 inches at the south end of 
the village. It increased rapidly as it was traced northwards, and may have 
been nearly a foot at the north side of Eichmond Yale. Some of the stones which 
fell there were a foot across. At Petit Bordel the largest stones weighed about 
10 pounds. At Barrualli and Layu the thickness of the layer of ash was from to 
inch, and the largest stones were two or three inches in diameter. In Kingstown 
the deposit was less than half an inch, and pumiceous stones about the size of a hen’s 
eo-v were found in the streets. 
On the windward side of the island, as we drove to Georgetown, ash deposits were 
first noticed in the fields about Colonarie, where thev had been 2 or 3 inches thick, 
and after passing Black Point we found abundant remains of the ejecta of the volcano 
everywhere^—on roadsides, arrowroot fields, and on the steeper ground inland. Much 
of the finer material had been washed away Ijy the rains, what was left was mostly 
the coarser sand, pumiceous scoria, and fragments of the old andesitic rocks of the 
mountain, at most 3 or 4 inches across. Nearer Geoigetown the sheet of ash was 
thicker, and in the streets and gardens of the houses in the village the old soil was 
covered to a dej^th of 1 to 2 feet. The average original thickness of the deposit may 
have been 18 inches. As the ground was fiat, not much had been washed away except 
the very finest dust from the surface ; the ash had been trodden down and was heaped 
up in places where it had fallen from the roofs or had been thrown out of the hoiises. 
Stones over a foot in diameter had fallen in Georgetown. The Anglican Minister, the 
Eev. Mr. Bell, showed us where one had penetrated the roof of his study. In the 
churches and houses nearly all the windows were broken, there was hardly a whole 
pane of glass in the village. The damage had been greatest in the windows facing 
the sea and not in those looking to north, south, or to west. The materials had 
evidently been projected to a great height in the air, and, falling through the steady 
current of the trade-wind, had acquired a westward velocity. They had fallen in a 
slanting direction, for where a window was protected by an overhanging verandah, the 
panes of glass in the upper part iiad often escaped destruction. But the windows 
looking towards the volcano had also suftered, though in a less degree. Not many 
large stones were to be seen in the fields, but we were told that they fell for the most 
part on the afternoon of Wednesday, and were covered ovei' by the subsequent rain 
of small scoria and fine dust. The larger blocks fell in occasional showei s, but it was 
not noticed that these followed any particularly loud detonations from the volcano. 
T1 le bananas and plantains, the mangoes, the bread-fruit, the cabbage and cocoanut 
palms had had their leaves torn ofi’ by falling stones. Many were still standing leaf¬ 
less, other's were putting out irew growth. The crops in the gardens were buried, but 
in the fields behind the town the rains had washed away more of the material and the 
arrowroot was reappearing in patches. In the south end of the town and around 
Grand Sable House torrents of thick brownish mud had flowed over the fields and 
