The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-07
DOMINICA SULPHUR LAKE.
MR. ALBERTH. VERRILL'S TRAVELS
 HIS FINE COLLECTIONS.


 He Describes His Visit to the Famous suI- 1 phur Lake in the West Indies-In Vol
 canoe's Crater-Its Shores Composed of | Pure Sulphur, Geysers and Lava.
 | A party of friends of MT. Albert H.
 Verrill, son of Professor Verrill of Yale,
 called upon him few nights ago at
 his home, 19 Carmel street, and were
 highly entertained by the young natur-
 alist. Few people would believe that
 within our city limits stands a house
 so completely filled with beautiful speci- mems of foreign and domestic birds,
 animals and ancient pottery from all
 parts of the world. MT. Verrilps home
 is indeed a museum in itself and the
 descriptions with which the young traveller entertains his visitor of his
 rare specimens, where found etc,
 proves exceedingly interesting and
 highly instructive. Few young men
 have visited the remote parts of the
 earth, as he has done. MT. Verrill has
 already spent ten years in travel in
 order to complete his education and
 equipment as naturalist. During his
 visits abroad he has had not a few exciting experiences. Once in the Andes
 he spent over two years in an Indian
 camp in order to fully understand their
 language and customs, and while there
 suffered for weeks with the deadly vel
 low fever and was cared for at the
 camp by the Indians, who manifested
 warm friendship for their white chief,
 as they called MT. Verrill. He has headed expeditions through South America in the interest of different South American governments and was sent abroad by our own government to collect curiosities for exhibition at the worlds fair. MT. Verrill is also a painter of no mean ability. He has had on exhibition at various times in the Yale Art store some fine specimens from his brush which have done him great credit notably his marine pie lures. He had the contract for furnish ing the pictures in the animal king dom for the new edition of Webster's dictionary and to complete the com tract occupied three years Of his time He is an occasional contributor to Out ing, and that magazine has occasional | sketches from his pencil. While on a visit recently to the Island ofDominica | he wrote descriptive letter to friend | In this city of the, sulphur lake of and as it will no doubt prove very interesting to our readers we give t in full:
 THE SULPHUR LAKE OF DOMINICA,
 Few of the tourists who visit the West Indies are aware that on the sland of Dominica is situated an ac- i've volcano, which, in some respects, $. one of the most ren1arkable on our The island is about twen- y-nine miles in length by seventeen n width and exceedingly mountainous, he highest point being Morne Dia- ,letin, $500 feet in height. On the Att aptic or windward side of the island he mountains rise abruptly from the ca, while on the Caribbean side there re broad plantations and swamps tretching back from the coast for sev- ral miles. Almost in the center of the sland and on the road from Roseau, he capital, to Lassua, the Carib Tn- . ian settlement, Is a small village called [ iaudat, which is peculiar, inasmuch, { s all the inhabitants numbering about fty are related to one another, being of Frenchman named z audat and his negro wife, who set e ed there many years ago. Laudat C
 built on a broad plateau about 1 500 1 set above the sea and commands a | lagnificent view. To the west and far T elow can be seen the Roseau river f inding between hills and through rich t alleys, some clothed with the dense t opical forest, others pale green with s lgar and banana plantations. Tn the c stance the streets and houses of n oseau glisten like silver in the tropic f might, while beyond sparkles the e right blue Caribbean sea, with here Ii nd there a tiny white speck of a sail z : perhaps the slowly moving long f. ack hull of the mail steamer To the f orth and east rise steep forest clad f ountains shutting off the view, while q
 the south are long series of sharp !, pped ridges ending in huge flat f, oped cpne some five miles away, . om which on clear day one may s e a slender column of steam rising. o lis is the volcano, or as it is commonly s rmed by the natives the Sulphur z, ike" Formerly this mountain was - vered like it's companions with a @ rest of palms, gum trees and tree e, rms, to it's summit, while on its far VI CT side was a small hot water lake r out an acre in extent, strongly i'm ~ egnated with sulphur, from which le took it's name. Now all is changed; VI 2 a thousand yards from the top ot 9 only vegetation is withered grass ol q small shrubs, while the lake is aS ice its original size and on one edge pi the present crater. One rainy day re
 September, 1886, the people of the " and were startled by series of un- p' lally heavy earthquakes, lasting nl arly an hour, followed by a dull th olosion and a few moments later by ar