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DRS. T. ANDERSON AND J S. FLETT ON THE ERUPTIONS OF THE 
at our disposal. Lieutenant Robinson, R.E., who was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. 
Huckerby, climbed the hill on the 3rd June, and from him we obtained a valuable 
report* * * § as to the state of matters on that date. On the 5th June, Mr. Riddick made 
an ascent. We followed on the 12th June, and since then several parties have 
reached the edge of the crater. We are indebted to Mr. Arthur Darrell, of 
Kingstown, for notes made on the appearance of the old and new craters on the 
27th June; and in the ‘Sentry’ (of Kingstown), dated 15th August, a few notes 
are published on the condition of the crater on the 12th August by Messrs. A., I., 
and F. Richards, of Kingstown. These ascents were all from Wallihu on the leeward 
side. 
On the windward side ascents have been made by Mr. Antoine ; Mr. Beach, 
Professor Jaggar,! Mr. Hovey, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Wilson, of 
Kingstown ; by Mr. Hoyey and Mr. Curtis ; and by us. 
The great convulsions of the spring of this year have elfected little altera¬ 
tion in the general outline of the two craters. Both remain somewhat modified 
indeed, but the changes in them, according to the opinion of those who knew 
them before, have not been very extensive. Exact measurements could not be 
made under the circumstances ; it is doubtful whether a careful survey was ever 
executed. Mr. Powell, Mr. T. M. McDonald, and Mr. Darrell consider that the 
shape of the main crater is more elliptical—it is broader from east to west than it was 
before, and that on the whole it is larger. This agrees with the statement of inhabit¬ 
ants of Chateaubelair that, as seen from that place, the lip of the- crater is slightly 
lower and somewhat different in profile, even if we allow for the effect of the 
disappearance of the vegetation which covered it. The small crater has not dis¬ 
appeared, neither is it much enlarged. Apparently it took no part in tliis eruption ; 
its walls are now bare, and it is reported—we believe by Mr. Hovey:|: —that it 
contained a slight deposit of black ash in its bottom. The saddle between it and the 
large crater still stands, though not quite so high as before, and several observers 
have seen landslides taking place on it, the material tumbling down into the large 
crater. 
When the first party ascended the mountain, they found a little water in the 
bottom of the main crater. It was boiling vigorously and giving out clouds of steam, 
especially at the south-east corner, close to the walls. § Lieutenant Robinson, R.E., 
on the 6th June, reports as follows ;— 
* Published among the j^a-pers in the Blue Book “On the Volcanic Eruptions in St. Vincent and 
Martinique in May, 1902,” p. 89. 
t T. A. Jaggar, “Field Notes of a Geologist on Martinique and St. Vincent,” ‘Popular Science 
Monthly,’ August 1902, p. 366. 
I E. 0. Hovey, “Martinique and St. Vincent: a Preliminary Report upon the Eruptions of 1902,” 
‘ Bull. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist.,’ vol. 16, p. 338. 
§ E. O. Hovey, loc. cit., plate 37, figs. 1 and 2. 
