Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
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Those Mountains, Which Present Traces Of The
Action Of Fire More Or Less Recent, And Some Of Which Reach Nearly
Nine Hundred Toises Of Elevation, Are All Situated On The Western
Skirt Of The Smaller West India Islands.* (* Journal Des Mines,
Tome 3 Page 59.
In order to exhibit in one point of view the whole
system of the volcanoes of the smaller West India Islands, I will
here trace the direction of the islands from south to north.
- Grenada, an ancient crater, filled with water; boiling springs;
basalts between St. George and Goave.
- St. Vincent, a burning
volcano. - St. Lucia, a very active solfatara, named Oualibou, two
or three hundred toises high; jets of hot water, by which small
basins are periodically filled. - Martinique, three great
extinguished volcanoes; Vauclin, the Paps of Carbet, which are
perhaps the most elevated summits of the smaller islands, and
Montagne Pelee. (The height of this last mountain is probably 800
toises; according to Leblond it is 670 toises; according to
Dupuget, 736 toises. Between Vauclin and the feldspar-lavas of the
Paps of Carbet is found, as M. Moreau de Jonnes asserts, in a neck
of land, a region of early basalt called La Roche Carree). Thermal
waters of Precheur and Lameutin. - Dominica, completely volcanic.
- Guadaloupe, an active volcano, the height of which, according to
Leboucher, is 799 toises; according to Amie, 850 toises.
- Montserrat, a solfatara; fine porphyritic lavas with large
crystals of feldspar and hornblende near Galloway, according to Mr.
Nugent.
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