“Volcanic Eruption”

Authors

Creator

Edwards, John C.

Date

2-25-1812

Newspaper

Lexington American Statesman

Page and Column

Page 2, Column 5

Newspaper Location

Lexington, Kentucky.

Serial Number

13

Abstract

Brief version of John C. Edwards account of volcanos in North Carolina.

Transcript

VOLCANIC ERUPTION. A Mr. John C. Edwards, in a letter to the Editor of the Raleigh Register, states that Spear's Mountain, Buncomb county, N. Carolina, has exhibited a volcanic eruption. It burns with great violence, and throws up to a very great height, lava, scoria, ashes, calcined stones and vitrified matter, in great quantities and with the most tremendous noise. At the beginning of the eruption the quantity of lava was so immense, as to run down the side of the mountain in a stream of liquid fire, to the distance of three quarters of a mile, and has formed a dam across the French Broad River, by which 200 acres of adjacent bottom land have been overflowed.

Recommended Citation

"“Volcanic Eruption”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 13.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/13