and some of the rocks are sparsely [25] coated with lichens and a dry, gray moss. The so-called “New” crater (so-called because it is supposed to have been the locus of the 1812 eruption of the Soufrière) contained no pool of water at the time of my visit, but the area of dried mud in the bottom of the bowl indicated the position and extent of the water standing there during the preceding rainy season. The lowest part of this crater is 330 feet by aneroid measurement above the rim at the point where the lee- ward trail arrives or 3230 feet above the sea. It is 1109 feet above the level of the lake in the big cra- ter. There is no practicable way of determining or even of estimatin