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DES. T. ANDERSON AND J. S. FLEET ON THE ERUPTIONS OF THE 
observer. When we ascended from the windward side we reached the edge of this 
precipice. Onr guide had l^een there with Mr. Hovey, and he told us that since his 
previous visit the outline of the cliff had consideraldy altered. We saw great cracks 
some yards hack from the edge, running parallel to it, and before we descended a 
large slice of the face broke away and slid down into the abyss. When he ascended 
with us, Mr. McDonald remarked that since his previous visit much rock had fallen, 
and lay at the foot of this great cliff. 
Lieutenant Robinson found that the southern lip of the crater was 2450 feet 
above sea level.* We made it at three different places 2690, 2630, 2700. These 
measurements are by aneroid, and are sufficient to show that on this side the lip 
is lower than before liy at least 300 feet. At the spot wliere we reached the 
edge of the crater fiom the windward side, our aneroid recorded a height of 
3050 feet, where formerly the altitude must liave been not less than 3400 feet. 
There can lie no douljt that a consideralde mass of the crater walls has been 
blown into the air l)y the great explosions of the 7th May, and that the 
crater is somewhat larger, and its rim distinctly lower in consequence. 
The amount of water in the crater continually increased during the months of 
June, July, and August, 1902. Wlien first visited, it contained only one small 
lake. A few days later Lieutenant Robinson found that there were three—as 
was also the case when we were there. 
Mr. Arthur L. Darrell, along with a party from Kingstown and Chateaubelair, 
ascended the mountain on the 27th June. He has sent ns a description of the 
crater, from which we extract the following :— 
“ We remained on the summit about three-quarters of an hour, carefully ins 2 )ecting the localities. 
I knew both of the craters, the old and the new—as they are jDojmlarly called—that were such 
objects of interest to tourists before the erujjtion, having visited them as late as last Easter Monday, 
March 30. 
“ I noticed that the old crater was changed in shajie. Before the eruption it was nearly circular, to-day 
it is an irregular oval, the extension being towards the Morne Eonde side on the north-west, and on the 
south-east where the Rest House formely stood. The hill on which the Rest House formerly stood has been 
blown away. The northern and eastern sides of the crater are more precipitous than they were. The south¬ 
eastern side is not so steep, but shelves from the top to the bottom. In some jdaces the sides are very 
rugged, being covered with large angular rocks, and in other places with smoother and finer material. 
The southern edge of the crater is lower than it was l^efore the eruption. As I stood on the 
south-west edge of the cone, and looked across to the north-east, I noticed that the ‘ saddle ’ or 
division ridge between the two craters seemed lower than it was formerly, for I could see over it 
to the furthermost side of what was known as the ‘ New Crater,’ which appeared to be more precipitous 
than formerly, and which presented a dark brick red appearance. Before the eruption, no one standing 
where I stood, on the edge of the old crater—now lower than before—could see the new crater beyond the 
‘ saddle.’ I therefore infer that the crest of the ‘ saddle ’ is considerably lower than it was; otherwise 
I could not have seen the red-faced further side of the ‘ New Crater.’ 
* Report by Lieutenant Alick C. Robinson, R.E., Blue Book, ‘ Correspondence relating to the Yolcanic 
Eriqitioiis in St. Vincent and Martinique in May, 1902,’ p. 90. 
