"Jarries, who is a colonial forester (19a) ranger of long experience on the Soufrière, says that in his opinion the crater lake now stands at a higher level than it did before judging from beneath Laigai Peak landmarks with which he was familiar in the old days. It seems to me, however, that not much reliance can be placed upon this opinion, on account of the changes which have been produced by the eruption. Before that took place there was much more vegetation on the southern, southwestern and western walls of the pit than there is now, and the denudation has made changes in the apparent relations of things. There does not seem to have been much if any enlargement of the crater in these quarters or on the north, above