“The Volcano”
Date
2-22-1812
Newspaper
Savannah Republican
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Savannah, Georgia
Serial Number
714
Abstract
Felt report from Buncombe County North Carolina from the Charleston City Gazette. Notes that it was felt with the same intensity as Charleston. Also refutes the John C. Edwards account
Transcript
THE VOLCANO. Finding, on Saturday morning, that much difference of opinion prevailed as to the truth or falsity of the account contained in the letter from the Raleigh Register," signed "John Clarke Edwards," which appeared in the Gazette of that morning, and learning that several gentlemen from Buncombe county, (the place where the "eruption" was said to have taken place) were in town, the editor called on those gentlemen, among whom were the sheriff of the county and several members of the legislature, who, one and all, declared that they never heard of any such phenomenon until they arrived near Charleston, although they live but a few miles from the Mountain, and left home on Saturday, the 1st instant, forty six days after it was said to have happened. Who this Mr. "John Clarke Edwards" is, who has been thus supporting with the feelings of the public on so interesting an occasion, his correspondents, the editors of the "Raleigh Register," can best inform us. The gentlemen further informed us, that the different shocks of earthquakes were felt at Buncombe and its vicinity, in about the same degree they were here, judging from the effect as described to them.--City Gazette.
Recommended Citation
"“The Volcano”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 700.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/700
