obtained from the somewhat perilous summit or the mass of rock
called Lot, where the spectator, elevated nearly 1 iW>§ feet, on a pinnacle
almost in the very centre of the huge howl, - dirts; us an unintercepted
view of the whole. The ascent of Lot is a tedktv# climb,
but well repays the labour bestowed upon it.
At the foot of the almost perpendicular fall from the crater’s
edge, th e , ground begins to slope more gradually, but very irre-
, gularly, down towards the sea. The formation, as we proceed
towards the floor of the crater, becomes unstratified and confused,
and is intersected by numerous1 dikes, varying in thickness from a
couple of inches to a hundred feet or more. As the centre of the
crater near Sandy Bay Beach is approached, these dikes increase in
number, sometimes lying clos'ely side by side, even also crossing
each other at right angles, and varying in composition just as much
as in A n r oefwwrd form and c oW , The'1' iweu appear numberless,
and S'f-»1- ,r; flsgwfl*# ssmfofai a feati cor displacement of the
adf&eiait ■mii H. ¡fik§ have -mmI* :# * of
brick or stone walls ruaauasg mjj w»i 4w*% "As crater
sides in »11 '■ .wt® a*#« ii flirmth» ■ ■.■ sea idee so many well
built ianding-piers. Of some of the largest o f these dikes, three or
four are very remarkable features in the structure of the Island,
striking, as they do, in parallel lines from the north-t-w-t to the
south-west right across the crater ; and, when viewed from its.
edge, much resembling the trail of some great serpent or monster
which had wended its way across it. Some of them testify strongly
to the amount of disintegration and denudation that has, through
long ages; been in progress on the surface of the Island. One
especially of them, which may be traced for four taiig* or more,
being formed of a fine hard crystalline felsp&o j •• if s thie og revy stone, much
harder than the surrounding rod»,, has worn away much less
rapidly than the adjacent ground, ami Iwft nsonolithic columnar
remains of itself at interval« jobssMRgpiotii its length. One of these
great piles of rock has just ix cn ■< . etshned as bearing the name of
Lot. I t stands almost, in the middle of the now remaining portion
of the crater, at an elevation of 1444 feet above the sea, baring a
base 100 feet in thickness, and an altitude of 290 feet A second,
called Lot’s Wife, stands about a mile and a half further to the
«-.vest, elevated 1550 feet above the sea, will an altitude of
feet, its upper portion being considerably 'h&Agm than the base_
VIEW IN SANDY BAY,