now raising sugar cane (3) more heavily per acre than they did before the eruption covered them with ash. On the Lot Fourteen Estate, which lies higher on the moun- tain than the preceding and which received a thicker deposit of ash, vegetation is pushing its way freely through the new deposit, and the manager of the planta- tions told me that the ground would bear richly. Cane is cut, in fact. ^tivated as far over the old fields as the present means of transpor- tion of products will warrant. The eastern or windward side of the Soufrière receives more rain- fall than the western, and vegeta- tion therefore is much more luxuriant here. ^the upper limit