“Extract of a Letter....”
Date
8-21-1812
Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Page and Column
Page 5, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Augusta, Georgia
Serial Number
834
Abstract
Report of a volcano on the Island of St. Vincents in the Caribbean.
Transcript
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman on the island of St. Vincent, to his correspondent in this city, Communicated for publication in the Mercantile Advertiser. Our volcanoe has made a most awful display of its horrid entrails, and [unreadable] a full third part of this fine [unreadable] under its ashes. All the lands [unreadable] vicinity, both to windward and [unreadable], are rendered unfit for cultivation and two of the largest rivers [unreadable] up. They have been dug for [unreadable]sand boiling. The mountains present a frightful prospect. Nothing [unreadable] seen but lava; not a tree nor [unreadable], and even most of those awful [unreadable], glens and falls, formerly seen, [unreadable] up, yet, strange to tell, very few lives have been lost.
Recommended Citation
"“Extract of a Letter....”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 818.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/818
