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It may be said that all the volcanic mountains in this part of the West Indies have what the people call a "soufriere" a "sulphur pit," or "sulphur crater" the name coming, as in the case of past disturbances of Mont Pelee, from the strong stench of sulphuretted hydrogen which issues from them when the volcano becomes agitated.
In 1812 the ashes which it threw out were so great in quantity, and projected to so vast a height, that they were carried to a distance of two hundred miles in the teeth of the trade-wind. From Mount Pelee, in Martinique, there was an eruption in August 1851. La Soufriere, the volcano in Guadaloupe, is said to have been cleft in twain during an earthquake.
Muter's schooner, the Louisa, to land at Soufriere, and march into the interior." In both the above cases where the military was called out, the provocation was given by the white. And in both cases it was afterwards granted to be needless. Indeed, in the quelling of one of these factitious rebellions, the prisoners taken were two white men, and one of them a manager. Please read and circulate.
Jorullo Great Monument Jorullo's Estate Interruption to his Quiet His Estate Swells Swallows Two Rivers Throws up Ovens Becomes a Burning Mountain Popocatepetl Spanish Ascents Orizaba Muller's Ascent Morne-Garou Pelee -La Soufriere What a fortunate man was Mr. Jorullo!
In 1812 it was La Soufriere adjacent to Mont Garou which broke loose on the island of St. Vincent, and it is the same Soufriere which again has devastated the island and has bombarded Kingstown with rocks, lava and ashes. The old crater of Mont Garou has long been extinct, and, like the old crater of Mont Pelee, near St.
But it could not be, and I owe what little I know of the summit of the soufriere principally to a most intelligent and gentleman-like young Wesleyan minister, whose name has escaped me.
The earthquakes which for two years had shaken a sheet of the earth's surface larger than half Europe, were stilled by the eruption of St. Vincent's volcanic peak. Northeast of the original crater of the Soufriere a new one was formed which was a half mile in diameter and five hundred feet deep.
Such was the case in 1812, when the eruption of Mont Soufriere on St. Vincent, as told in a later chapter, formed merely the closing event in a series of earthquakes which had made themselves felt under thousands of miles of land. In olden times volcanoes were regarded with superstitious awe, and it would have been considered highly impious to make any investigation of their actions.
Nitre can be procured in the Cibao, that great storehouse which has specimens of almost every metal, salt, and mineral; borax at Jacmel and Dondon, native alum at Dondon, and aluminous earth near Port-au-Prince; vitriol, of various forms, in a dozen places; naphtha, petroleum, and asphaltum at Banique, and sulphur in different shapes at Marmalade, La Soufrière, etc.
Here, thirty-five days before the volcanic explosion, the ground was rent and shaken by a frightful earthquake which hurled the city in ruins to the ground and killed ten thousand of its inhabitants in a moment of time. La Soufriere made the first historic display of its hidden powers in 1718, when lava poured from its crater.
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