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“...244 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
miles of densely-wooded valley and mountain,
ending in the dim and blue distance with the
surf-fringed shore of Rosalie Bay on the windward
coast.
The Boiling A visit to the Boiling Lake, which was dis-
9 covered about twenty years ago by a party of
three, headed by Dr. H. A. A. Nicholls, is alto-
gether a more serious undertaking. The lake is
really an active volcano, and may be described as
a small geyser of boiling sulphur, about 300 feet
long by 200 feet wide. The journey to it is
arduous, and is not unattended with considerable
risk. Visitors to the lake usually camp out in the
woods, in order to enable them to begin the more
difficult part of their journey in the early morning.
Two mountains, each about 3000 feet high, have
to be traversed, and the descent of the latter of
these, the Morne Nicholls, is extremely dangerous,
especially in wet weather, when the slightest slip
may land one in a boiling spring at the bottom.
Having safely negotiated these mountains...”
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