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“...as in Grenada, Trinidad, and the south-
end of St. Lucia. At 12.10 p.m. on Wednesday, I
left in company with several gentlemen in a small
row-boat to go to Chateaubelair, where we hoped
to get a better view of the eruption. As we
passed Layou, the first town in the leeward coast,
the smell of sulphuretted hydrogen was very per-
ceptible. Before we got half-way on our journey,
a vast column of steam, smoke, and ashes ascended
to a prodigious elevation. The majestic body of
curling vapour was sublime beyond imagination.
We were about eight miles from the crater as the
crow flies, and the top of the enormous column,
eight miles off, reached higher than one-fourth of...”
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