... of these heautitul mikado in the Caribbean Sea. lie is spud to have expressed the following view : - The constant eruptions a bole is being made an the bosom of the earth; when reaches a great must follow. The Caribbean Islands are situated In a the sarth's ...

... great size subsidence must follow, ’lire Caribbean Islands are situated in a region .where the earth’s crust is extremely weak, as was demonstrated ages ago when the Andean Mountains broke down and the Caribbean basin and the Gulf of Mexico were formed ...

... activity in modem times, the chly noteworthy exception being the long island chain which separates the Atlantic from the Caribbean Sea. Many, of the Lesser Antilles are characteristic volcanic islands, and the whole area corresponds in its physical features ...

... APPALLING CALAMITY. NEVER before in the history of the 1 Islands of the Caribbean Sea has a I greater calamity been recorded. Thel engulfing of Port Royal, Jamaica,' over a century ago, and severe earthquakes, hurricanes an d volcanic eruptions have often ...

... merging into a roar. This lasted throng* 11 inesday night until Friday morning. Th thundering was heard throughout the Caribbean sea. - - eruption b = huge eload in dark with matter mas to • eight miles from the tiad &Alum midnight limeanded. flu , ...

... Virrent, one of the Windward group, the Governor ct which has his cflicial headquarters at Grenada, the most southern of the Caribbean chain, is a singe iiiand a little over a third the size of the French Martinique. The Sauffrk..re, which is in eruption and ...

... assistance The awful calamity is now realized, and every effort is being made to grapple with it. All the best estates in the Caribbean are devastated,and the cattle dead. Eru continues, but it is apparently moderating. Anxiety still felt. All officers and ...

... great size, subsidence must follow. The Caribbean Islands are situated in a region where the earth's crust is extremely weak, as was demonstrated ages ago, when the Andean mountains broke down, and the Caribbean basin and the Gulf of Mexico were formed ...

... with Spain and of the placing in commission of the St. Paul as a United States warship. It was given by the Society of the Caribbean, a club consisting of the war who participated in the campaign of Cuba and Porto Rico. A unique feature of the banquet was ...

... On contrary each succeeding day adds to the appalling character of the story which comes from the chain winch diridoa the Caribbean Si-a from Atlantic. With the ozeepoion of the fact that somo portion of the inhabitants St- Pierre appear to have fled to ...

... is yet too early to say whether or not Bome other one of the picturesque arc of islands stretching from the Atlantic to Caribbean Sea may not have suffered annihilation, or a fate approaching annihilation, by the tremendous volcanic disturbance which ...

... The island, it will be remembered, is only miles long and 11 broad, a small patch of earth set in the great expanse of the Caribbean Mee, crossed from north to south by volcanic hills, and studded with forests, fertile combs, and pleasant valleys. The lowlands ...