Crossword-Solution: PITONS 6 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Out of a bright sea of verdure, speckled with oases of darker foliage, these Pitons from the land side tower in sombre vegetation.

The pitons, far fewer in number, are much more fantastic in form;--volcanic cones, or volcanic upheavals of splintered strata almost at right angles,--sometimes sharp of line as spires, and mostly too steep for habitation.

But its centre is not one enormous pyramidal mass like that of "La Montagne": it is marked only by a group of five remarkable porphyritic cones,--the Pitons of Carbet;--while Pelée, dominating everything, and filling the north, presents an aspect and occupies an area scarcely inferior to those of AEtna.

From certain very lofty summits further inland you behold the immense blue circle touching the sky all round you,--except where a still greater altitude, like that of Pelée or the Pitons, breaks the ring; and this high vision of the sea has a phantasmal effect hard to describe, and due to vapory conditions of the atmosphere.

There are a number of extraordinary acuminations; but the most impressive shape is the nearest,--a tremendous conoidal mass crowned with a group of peaks, of which two, taller than the rest, tell their name at once by the beauty of their forms,--the Pitons of Carbet.