SOUFRIERE, AND ON A VISIT TO MONTAGNE PELEE, IN 1902. 
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PLATE 23, FIG. 2. 
The 3Iouth of the JFalKbu River, St. Vincent. 
A gush of boiling mad, several inches deep, is rushing down the stream, and its surface is steaming 
vigorously. The valley is eroded out of soft well-bedded tuffs. On the left side, several feet of new 
ashes lie on the old soil. The vegetation is ruined by the eruption. A fan is forming at the mouth of the 
river, owing to the amount of mud which is being deposited. 
PLATE 24, FIG. 1. 
Section of the New Ash Deposits on the Sea Shore, a little south of the hlouth of the JFallibu River, St. Vincent. 
The ash has gathered here on a low flat beach, which is covered to a depth of 20 to 40 feet. It is 
black on the surface when wet, but is quite hot in the interior, and is grey in a few spots where it has 
dried after the rains. Deeji rills have been cut in it by the showers. In the background explosions 
of steam are rising from the river. On the shore lies a charred tree truidv. Richmond Peak is seen 
on the right-hand. 
PLATE 24, FIG. 2. 
Scene in Chateaubelair, St. Vincent, showing the Contrast between the Country which has been Spared and 
that which is Devastated. 
PLATE 25, FIG. 1. 
Landing below Jf^allibu Plantation, St. Vincent. 
Before the eruptions there was a broad, flat beach at this place, and on it stood a village of labourers’ 
houses beside the public road. That beach has disappeared, and the bluffs which formerly rose behind 
it now present a vertical face to the sea. Large masses frequently fall from these cliffs, and a narrow 
new beach has formed at their base. Soft stratifled tuffs are exposed in the cliffs, and over them 
lies a deposit of new ashes from 5 to 10 feet deep. The remains of the chimney of Wallibu 
Plantation are seen above the boats on the right. The valley of the Wallibu Dry River lies to the 
left, and in it the new ash forms round-backed mounds. In the background is the Soufriere, with the 
Somma wall on the left of the crater, the rim of which is seen in the centre of the jnctiire. 
PLATE 25, FIG. 2. 
tJ'allibu Plantation IVorks, Half Buried hi Ashes. 
The roof has collapsed, but the woodwork is unburnt. The level ground is covered with several feet of 
ashes, channelled by the rains. The steeper slopes behind have been washed nearly bare. The trees are 
blasted, but not overturned. In the background the Soufriere rises to the north of the valley of the 
Wallibu Dry River. 
PLATE 26. 
The Plantation Grounds of JVallibu, St. Vincent. 
The fields are covered with a layer of ash, which is several feet deep on the flat grounds, but less on the 
slopes behind. The surface is channelled with rain rills, the arrangement of which varies with the slope. 
The trees are blasted and stripped of their branches on the side looking up the valley, so that the effects 
of the blast and the direction in which it was travelling are clearly visible. 
