i would agree the mont pele volcano in cameroon stands a good
chance of having been named bald peak in normal french
as it is a single peak or mont on a larger montagne or massif of
a different name
& this pele never appears as mont pelee nor montagne pele

but even your normal frenchman here proclaiming the origin of
the mont pelee volcano on martinique with such conviction & in
otherwise apparently normal french doesnt explain why the
caribs would have named the whole montagne or massif for the
single mont de feu or fire peak
nor why the colonials would also have named the whole
montagne for a bald spot on that same single volcanic peak

nor for that matter why the cross dressing montagne pele gets
44 hits on google to this day
such as
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp5/q
uestion664.html

but in any case it is nice to see the 1635 citation or attestation of
the west indian pelee name more than a century before the
discovery of hawaii

& especially nice to see dougs awesome nose rock

& i wish he would finish loading page 4 already so i can see it
as i am still looking forward to a punctological presentation of
byltpl

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> Yes! Thank you!
>
> Lowell
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:13 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: erupting vertex with molten vortex

found

>
>
> "Dès 1635, les premiers colons savaient qu'ils étaient à

proximité

> d'un volcan, appellée Montagne de Feu par les Caraïbes. La

montagne

> avait été rebaptisée Montagne Pelée certainement du à sa

végétation

> détruite par une faible éruption en 1630."
>
> From http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacobsj/fr/madinina/pelee.htm
>
> Peter S.