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LA SOUFRIERE VOLCANO
is DUE FOR AN ERUPTION EACH
HUNDRED YEARS.
= the History of the Past Out
WH, S OF the Great Stream
of Lava.

washington, May list. NinceBS, which
is now regarded as in danger, is AN
island that Is due to have a volcanic erup-
non about once In a hundred years. And
when crater opens ut the top of the terri.
Die La soufriere and the lava streams begin
TO now the islands of the sea for hundreds
OF miles around hear its roaring and arc
shrouded in It's ashes.
The last eruption was In 1872 The Que
before that was In 171S and was even more
violent In character. Unless this years out.
burst is trihing one compared with those
OF tde past it Is certain to have sacrificed
many lives and inflicted most heavy losses
st. Vincent Is the middle one of the three
Nndward Islands belonging to Great
Britain, and II lies about ms far to the
soulh OF st. Lucia as ST. Lucia lies to the
suutn OF Martlnique The distance that SEP.
drNtes the two great volcanoes, Mont Peiee
OIL Martinique and La Sourriere OF St Vim
cent, Is almost exactly one hundred miles.
D. Vincent is little oval ISLAND eighteen
mlcs long and eleven wide. with an area
OF one hundred and thirty two square miles.
IL Is neautiiu and heulthful. Its green hid
hdts slope gradually down toward the sea-
ana l"rlu terraces that seem as though
especially designed for plantations and set
t"ments The highest peak Morne and
Hdlou towers to hve thousand two hundred
81, ii n,,tto' - 60 tce" ~ tne SUNNI =
north Of the island, which is four thousand
ana elghty-four feet Ia height.
of INC rcniit,, Of to ,,ana, i, ,1tt' 80,
NOT "a far v,ifbout imddo, aintt v,not
ever way lie may start out for days jour
ney lac will lie sure to come to one of the
of i,,n mn botc ttNarI'ai az -. Va W ~,
ror in former centuries.
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