“the Volcano”
Date
2-15-1812
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
346
Abstract
Notice that someone from the area of the John Clark Edwards volcano account states that it was fictional
Transcript
THE VOLCANO. In the preceding page we have inserted a letter from Mr. John Clarke Edwards, giving a minute account of the eruption reported to have broken out in the mountains of North Carolina. It will be recollected that this is the same gentleman who furnished us with the marvelous account of the falling of the Painted Rock, which account was very soon after contradicted.-We think this story of the Volcano should be received with great caution, notwithstanding the circumstantial description which he gives of the phenomenon. Indeed we understand there are gentlemen now in town, who are recently from that part of the country, but who had neither seen nor heard of anything of the kind.
Recommended Citation
"“the Volcano”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 339.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/339
