{Insert on h.35} Going northward from the house on (37) the plateau the deposit of new ash becomes thicker and coarser. A squally ten feet deep near the border of the Wallisau gorge does not cut through to the bottom of it. Vegetation is nearly absent from this part of the flat, the grass being very thin and there being almost none of the bushes here. The ash contains many bombs from 6 to 12 inches in diameter and some that are even 15 inches across. [Ill. 22, 62 A] The illustration shows the northern more barren part of the little plateau and brings out the new drainage features On this ridge a ficuss tree is very prominent. It is about 2 feet in diameter and James [illegible] that it has grown up since the erup.