After The Eruption.
According to a letter from M. Lacroix, brought before the' Academic dcs Sciences', Paris, all vegetation has disappeared between St. Pierre and the island of- La Perle, Martinique, The ground is like a relief map covered with dear grey ashes. When the spectator is caught in a cloud of ashes the landscape looks as if seem through the f ,moke of a lime lain. An ascent of Mount Pelee has shown a number of fissures and fractures, emitting steam and fumes of sulpuretted hydrogen, or of chlorbrydrate of ammonia. The lighthouse, tombstones, and trees fallen at St. Pierre, and the walte ppreserved, trend north and south. The town is a ruin, but as only fine ashes and small stones fell on it, the destruction was due to the rapid. north and south movement of the earth, and ths discharge of gases at high temperatures from the crater. The soundings near the coast are not perceptibly changed. « "Mre are no fresh eruptions the count"- will be gi'een again in a few months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 7
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