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... Mount Pelee is just one where repeated outbursts are to be feared. Wholly surrounded as Martinique is by the waters of the Caribbean Sea and placed in the centre of an active volcanic region, the island may not have been subjected to anything like its worst ...
... asked for further information.—Reuter. SCENF OF THE CATASTROPHE Martinique is about thirty miles due south across the blue Caribbean water from Dominica. Columbus made its discovery on last voyage 1502, but, says A. K. JTiske, his book The West Indies, ...
... size subsidence must follow. His belief, unfortunately, is not without reason. As he points out, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin was formed in this summer when the Andean Mountains broke down, and it is notorious that the crust of the earth is ...
... into a continuous roar. This lasted through Wednesday night until Friday morning. The thundering was heard throughout the Caribbean Sea. The eruption began on Wednesday. Huge clouds in dark dense columns, charged with volcanic matter, rose to a height of ...
... between volcanic and seismic disturbances has once more beon proved by the events of recent days in different islands in the Caribbean Sea. It might be asked, Will man ever succeed in harnessing the gigantic underground forces as he has utilised some of tho ...
... take it into account. This location, on the north-east rim the Antilles, is in close proximity to of the passages into the Caribbean Sea. and affords an excellent point observation near European possessions in the archipelago. While being near other islands ...
... swamps communicate with the rivers in the neighbourhood, the flood levels frequently rises many feet above the level the Caribbean Sea, and embankments will be required for long distances, not only maintain the canal from wiwun, but also exclude flood ...
... practically no escape. THE SCENE OF DISASTER. ,. r Vf „„. w Martinique is about thirty miles due south acro the bins Caribbean water from Dominica. Columbus made its discovery on his last voyage in 1502, but, says A. K. in his book Tha West Indies ...
... cataclysm which destroyed Martinique extends its inexorable powers of destruction over the ancient of Great Britain in the Caribbean Sea. TJnder these circumstances, is only natural that the sympathy generously bestowed upon the French sufferers should now ...