(bushes (the pigeonberry) and large (34) Treeferns is now between 2400 and 2450 feet above the sea by aner- oide determination. On the leeward side of the volcano the devastation caused by the eruption (verify) was more thorough and recovery on the whole from it has been slower than on the windward, except as favored by greater the retention of moisture due to the de- positing of several layers of fine dust to the southwest of the crater. On this side conditions are better perhaps than on the other for examination and observation description of the return of the vegetation. Beginning at the south, the Richmond Estate was on the southern border of the zone of annihilation or devas- tation and the valley of the Richmond River was the limit of that zone,