'From the apex of the sub-range, looking back, we could have enjoyed a grand panorama of craters, sweeping in a vast semicircle. Northwards, however was a spectacle that absorbed all our attention. Straight before us rose in ineffable majesty those glorious peaks, tangible, as it were, in the morning aether, high towering over all the subject land and dwarfing the craters and cones below. No chasm separated us from them. Beyond the base of Mount Isabel the ground swelled gently upwards to the feet of the King of all the cones. I marked at once our path, - a broad meandering lava-bed, which had been confirmed to certain limits by dwarf spiracles dotted on both sides...a long perpendicular sweep of blue parted most sensibly Victoria from Albert Mountain...' (Abeokuta, II, pp. 148-9)