Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0237Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of two men hiking along a path, one man looks back towards the camera while the other is standing on a boulder observing the landscape. Above the image "T222 (Star)" is printed, below the image "14437T Mighty Earthquake Fissure - "Lac du Nord." Soufriere Volcano, Guadeloupe, French West Indies." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
14437
MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE FISSURE - "LAC DU NORD." GUADELOUPE
In the light ot twentieth century values it seems strange enought to think that England's joy at the naval victory which assured her supermeacy in the West Indies far outweighte the sorrow she felt at losing her colonies in America. Since that time tariffs and embargoes have killed the enterprises of these islands, and sugar and coffee planations and once famous cities lies deserted and ruiend. From these islands in their great day came Alexander Hamilton, the Empress Josephine, and Admiral Nelson.
Like a chain of stepping stones about thirty miles apart lies these Caribbee Islands, forming a crescent-shaped bridge from Porto Rico to Tinidad, between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. Beautiful gardens of Eden they seem to be as we sail along the inner or Caribean side, and nature has indeed done much to support this claim, but she gives also the other side of the picture, and the terrible devastation by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes attest her awful power. These island are of volcanic orign. Soufriere, meaning "sulphur-minie," is the name given to many of the West Indain moutains. This one is quiet (unreadable) through in 1797 it did terrible damage and (unreadable)43 it shook the whole island and utterly (unreadable)ed its towns. Farther south, on the little (unreadable) isle of St. Vincent, we find another (unreadable)riere which shared with Mont Pelee in (unreadable) terrible disaster of 1902.
The West Indies have very appropriately been called an island continent for the area (unreadable) vast; and according to geologists the island are the remaining peaks and plateaus of a now submerged land.
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