On Monday, Mr. McGregor (11) MacDonald and his brother Duncan and I went by automo- bile northward along the windward coast as far as the road was passa- ble and then walked a mile further. This journey took us entirely across the area seriously affected by the 1902 eruption, from Georgetown to the south bank of the dry river on the north bank of which stands the re- vived village of Overland. Then, returning in the car to the Orange Hill Estate, now the property of Mr. Charles Barnard, I went on horseback with Mr Childs manager of the estate cross its fertile fields, which have been fully restored to more than their pre-eruption production of sugar- cane, and across the still