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for the tent.
Camp site we dug through eight [21]
alternations of thin beds (quarter inch
to one inch thick) of the hard mud and
loose coarse black sand into a bed
of "cement" which we cut into for
six inches without reaching its bottom.
This thick layer recalled to mind
the morass
^ the sea of soft mud which my con-
familions, Messrs. J.A. Jaggar Jr., G.C.
Curtis and J.MacG. MacDonald, and
I waded through near this spot
on 31 May, 1902,
when we made the first ascent of
the volcano after the great eruption be-
gan. The tenacity with which
this material holds its place and
resists erosion is strikingly il-
lustrated by the caps which rest on
many rocks along the sea coast
near Morne Ronde. Some of these
hard mud-caps are still two to three