[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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are lined with a coating of cup-[51] crystallized sulphur and discharge [illegible] moist hot air. Three were tested with the thermometer and gave a temperature of 95° C. One having almost no sulphur in it had a temperature of 96° C. During the past few years the burnt area has not increased percept- ibly toward the east, but it has spread up the slope of L' Echelle where new vents have opened and boiling springs have developed. These seem to owe their origin mainly to the damming of surface drainage from the mountain. The lower of the spring is now five to six meters in diameter, almost cir- cular in outline and is and more than one and one-half meters