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tion The gu-gu palm is a tree [38]
of much more rapid growth than
the ficus, and the ridge bears many
that are 20 to 24 inches in diame-
ter. These certainly have grown up
since the eruption, for the photograph
of the same region taken in 1902
and 1903 show no living trees,
while here and there stands the
charred trunk of a pre-eruption
palm as a mute witness of its
destruction wrought by the clouds
of incandescent ash.
The Wallibou River has carried
out to sea an enormous quantity
of the volcanic debris which was de-
posited on its watershed and in its
gorge by the eruption of 1902-1903
but it is still running considera-
bly above its old grade. This is