“From the National Intelligencer’
Date
2-24-1812
Newspaper
Boston Independent Chronicle
Page and Column
Page 2, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Serial Number
173
Abstract
Reprint of an article from the National Intelligencer refuting the John. C. Edwards account for the volcano in North Carolina
Transcript
From the National Intelligencer. We have good reason to believe that the account of the late earthquake signed John S. Edwards, if not altogether untrue, was greatly exaggerated; as we find from a Knoxville paper of a later date, that the National Rock, which in that account, was stated to have fallen down and blocked up the road, retains its old station, unmoved. Not satisfied with having imposed on the public by one wonderful account of this phenomenon, a second story has been published under the same signature, more extraordinary than the first, wherein it was stated, "that a VOLCANO had burst forth at the top ofSpear's Mountain Buncomb county, which continued to burn with great violence, and to throw up lava, &c in large quantities, with the most tremendous noise, &c, &c." This second story, which is told as circumstantially, and; with the same plausibility; as the first is doubtless equally devoid of truth; as the representative in Congress from that district of North Carolina, has received letters from thence of a later date, which are entirely silent as to any such extraordinary event. It is to be regretted that this personage, whoever he may be, has no better employment.
Recommended Citation
"“From the National Intelligencer’" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 168.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/168
