“Intelligence of...”

Date

2-20-1812

Newspaper

Augusta Herald

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Augusta, Georgia

Serial Number

755

Abstract

Notice that John C. Edwards had published another account, this one about the volcano in western North Carolina. Notes that if might be fictitious.

Transcript

INTELLIGENCE of the bursting forth of a Volcano at the westward occasioned some conversation among our citizens, and excited considerable interest a day or two past. We have procured the account to which the report here owes its origin and this day publish it as we find it in the Raleigh Register. It will be seen that it is written by the same person who gave the former account of the Earthquake at Buncombe which it was stated overturned the Painted Rock, &c.-And we are inclined to believe that the one account is as correct as the other. The particulars of the Volcano are given with sufficient plausibility to secure it some credit, yet for our own parts we do not believe it, but our readers will judge of its probability for themselves. We should not be sorry to find the account confirmed, but it seems from the statement that the Volcano burst forth on the 16th December upwards of two months ago-yet it does not appear that the account is corroborated by any individual though several from that part of the country have been here since then-and since that time too we have received papers from all parts of the continent from Tennessee Kentucky and the Mississippi, as well as from other directions. Still the account may be true, but we rather suspect that the writer is one of those travellers, who has given a furlow to certain moral qualities which ought to have attended him, in order to astonish his readers by his marvellous details. If the fact is not so we beg pardon of the writer in advance-if it is both the justness and moderation of our remark will, we trust, be admitted The last paragraph but one of the account, in no event, does the writer much credit.

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