ST. VINCENT IN 1902, AND ON A VISIT TO MONTAGNE PELEE. 
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He also collected samples at Rosebank and Hastings, where the amount from 
8.45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 16 was 4 - 49 tons per acre. # 
Mr. Powell and a party ascended the mountain on October 28, 1902, and found 
that the old crater was discharging volumes of steam and that numerous cones of 
ashes were being thrown up to a height of 30 or 40 feet from a fissure close under the 
southern wall, f The lake was boiling near the centre. The steam as it rose was 
carried along the south-eastern wall to the eastern edge of the crater, where it 
became visible to observers in the low country and created the erroneous impression 
that the new crater was in eruption. 
On Wednesday, November 26, 1902,} there was a considerable flow of mud down 
the Rabaka River. The ash avalanches of the May eruptions had completely blocked 
its bed, and the ejecta of the subsequent eruptions had doubtless contributed their 
quota. As a result there was no water in the channel, and this in spite of the heavy 
rainfall of five months. On November 26 the stream at last got vent, and two raging, 
steaming torrents descended the valley. One of these destroyed the remains of the 
Rabaka Sugar Works, and for the last mile before reaching the sea the old course has 
been blocked up and the river now runs in a new channel to the north of the old one. 
It is supposed that a lake had formed in the higher reaches of the river which at last 
had got vent, but details are wanting. 
Mr. Huckerby writes§: “Detonations were heard on the 19th and 22nd of 
October and on the 6th, 11th, and 24th of November, 1902. On the 26th of 
November there was a minor eruption and a small quantity of ash and lapilli fell at 
Georgetown and Chateau Belair. On the 22nd of January, 1903, at 12 noon, there was 
again a minor eruption with a projection of very dark steam and a little ash. 
Detonations were heard on the 22nd, 24th, 26th, and 28th of January and on the 6th 
of February. Steam was emitted from the crater on the 13th, 14th, and 28th of 
February.” 
Professor Sapper, of Tubingen,|| ascended the Soufriere on February 6, 1903, with 
the Rev. T. Huckerby, of Chateau Belair, and paid a visit to both the new and the 
old craters, this apparently being the first to the new one since the eruption. They 
found that owing to landslides into the crater the gap above the Larikai valley was 
deepened. They had considerable difficulty in crossing it, and in order to do this had 
to descend some distance. Dr. Sapper made a plan of the crater and found that no 
material alteration had taken place in its shape from that indicated on the English 
Admiralty Chart. The diameter in every direction was about 1320 metres (4331 feet), 
* ‘The Agricultural Reporter,’ October 20, 1902. 
t ‘Sentry,’October 31, 1902. 
\ ‘ Barbados Advocate,’ December 3, 1902. 
§ In a letter to Dr. Anderson. 
|| “ Der Krater der Soufriere vou St. Vincent,” von Karl Sapper, ‘ Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, : 
Stuttgart, 1903, pp. 369-373. 
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