III. An account of Morne Garou, a mountain in the island of St. Vincent, with a description of the volcano on its summit. In a letter from Mr. James Anderson, Surgeon, to Mr. Forsyth, His Majesty's Gardener at Kensington communicated by the Right Honourable Sir George Yonge, Bart. F.R.S
1785; Royal Society; Volume: 75; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1098/rstl.1785.0003
ISSN2053-9223
Autores Tópico(s)Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
ResumoThe many ridges of mountains which intersect this island in all directions, and rise in gradations, one above the other, to a very great height, with the rivers tumbling from their sides over very high precipices, render it exceeding difficult to explore its interior parts. The most remarkable of the these mountains is one that terminates the N.W. end of the island, and the highest in it, and has always been mentioned to have had volcanic eruptions from it. The traditions of the oldest inhabitants in the island, and the ravins at its bottom, seem to me to vindicate the assertion. As I was determined, during my stay in the island, to see as much of it as I could; and as I knew, from the altitude of this mountain, there was a probability of meeting with plants on it I could find in no other part of the island; I should have attempted going up if I had heard nothing of a volcano being on it.
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