“Communication”
Date
2-21-1812
Newspaper
Raleigh Minerva
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Raleigh, North Carolina
Serial Number
683
Abstract
Felt report from Lenox Castle, located near Reidsville, North Carolina. Felt report for the February 7, 1812 earthquake. Lenox Castle was the name of a plantation in the area.
Transcript
COMMUNICATION. Permit me to acquaint you that on Thursday last, at 10 minutes past 9 o'clock A. M. the shock of an earthquake was sensibly felt here. It made the shingles on the house and the furniture up stairs sound like three distinct notes of the reveillie, beat at a distance. I am apt to conclude that the elements are equally bewildered, and deviate as much from their usual course as our sapient members of congress, the peerless Mr. Randolph and a few others excepted: For on Sunday preceding it snowed and hailed almost all day, so as to cover the ground, and at night lightened, thundered and rained so heavily that the water courses were raised to such a height as to prevent the post from proceeding on his rout with the mail next day, which was as cold as the lakes of (the parliamentary countersign, a re-echo to the throne perhaps,) Canada. Lenox Castle, January 27, 1812.
Recommended Citation
"“Communication”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 670.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/670
