The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-02
AT MOUTH OF THE VOLCANO
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 foot with the hideoujs, viscid and semi.
 solid matter thrown out.
 Professor Heilprin still persisted ir
 his study and observations, however
 and twice more he was showered witf
 mud. He learned, as had been suspect
 ed, that there were three separate vents
 through which steam issued. Full de-
 tails of the professors observations
 cannot be had until he returns to Fort
 de France,
 Professor HeiIprin's journey down the
 side of the mountain was fully IS peril
 ous as the ascent. Mont Pelee seemed | to resent the intrusion of a puny human
 being into her most awful precincts and belched out huge volumes of steam
 ashes and boiling-bot mud.
 Professor Heilprin made the import
 ant discovery that the crater at the
 head of the River Fallaise has synchro-
 nous eruptions with the crater at the summit of the volcano, and that it ejects precisely the same matter at
 such times. The River Fallaise crater and the crater at the summit showed, during Professor Heilprins visit, new phenomenon. Mud was thrown up In high columns. Heretofore the mud has bubbled or boiled out and flowed down ward in huge streams, In the course of one eruption of the River Fallaise cra- ter an enormous mass of intensely hot mud was ejected. This flow reached the rum distillery on the Vive planta- ton and extinguished all the fires there This torrent of mud may invade the en- 1 ter of one of the richest districts in the island it is feared the damage there may be great
 Mir. Clerc furnishes the following fur ther details of Professor Heilprin's as cent: The party proceeded on mules to an altitude of 700 metres, the ancient line of vegetation From this point Professor Heilprin continued on foot, leaving the mule that had carried him up the steep hog-back to the tree line. Upon reaching the site of Lake Palm iste, Professor Heilprin found it to be completely dried up. He crossed the bed of the lake and continued on up the gentlyrising slope to the crater For merly the edge of the crater was high bluff, or shoulder This, the explorer found, had fallen inward into the great crater, and he thinks this change prob ably occurred at the time of the great explosion of May 20. This is the first important topographic alteration in Mont Pelee which has been noted and verified
 Professor Heilprin arrived at the edge of the summit crater at half-past one and remained there for over two hours. When he returned to Vive he resen1bled a statue of mud The weight of ashes and mud he carried on his person. the horrible atmosphere he breathed and the fearful difficulties he encountered reduced Professor Heilprin to a condi ton of extreme fatigue, notwithstand- ing the fact that he ascended Mont Pe- lee from the most accessible and easiest side. Professor Heilprin may return to Fort de France tomorrow if he has recovered by that time to travel
 George Kennan and his party, who went to Morne Rouge found. on their return trip, that a bridge across the road had been carried away by a tor rent of hot mud. Negroes managed to get the party across the obstruction. they took the carriages to pieces and them and the members of the party to the other side of the river of mud, which was still hot. All the ner- 1ers of MT. kennan's party are well