Identifier: truestoryofmarti00whit (find matches)
Title: True story of the Martinique and St. Vincent calamities ... including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, John Randolph. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Volcanoes
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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place. The streets were broader and cleaner, and the buildingsof a better quality. All of the streets were narrow, the principalone (the Rue de Victor Hugo) being scarcely wide enough to per-mit two carriages to pass abreast. PROUD OF THE VOLCANO. Through every street ran an open gutter of water from thehills, and early in the morning, just when the cool dawn windwas coming down from the mountains, these gutters would bealive with people. The native women would bring out their tallearthen jars, called Welsh hats by the resident Englishmen,to be filled with cool flowing water. Babies were brought out andallowed to disport themselves, while their mothers cleansed thehousehold utensils. The streams being fed from mountain lakes,cleanliness in dress and habitation was common, even among thelowest classes. Back from St. Pierre, about eight miles on a winding moun-tain road, was a fashionable native resort, Morne Rouge. Herethe rich residents had their country homes, and it is probable that
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