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Transcription
"of sulphur, but they are
made by ascending vapors in -
stead of descending solutions
as in limestone grottoes - Le
Boucher (reference) gives the
following account of the
old sulphur cave (translation
from Le Boucher):
The opening leading into these
chambers is said to have been
closed by a landslide which
took place in 1843 at the time
of the great earthquake destroyed
the city of Pointe a Pitre and
shook the whole of Guadeloupe.
Apparently this landslide
closed the lower end of the
Grande Fente, below the Lac
de Soufre, but it seemed tome
as I stood above the "lake" that