“Extract of a letter”
Date
8-7-1812
Newspaper
Norfolk Herald
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Norfolk, Virginia
Serial Number
1007
Abstract
Report from St. Vincent’s island in the Caribbean of a volcanic eruption
Transcript
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the island of St. Vincent, to his correspondent in this city, communicated for publication in the Mercantile Advertiser. Our Volcano has lately made a most awful display of its horrid entrails, and has laid a full third part of this fine island under its ashes. All the lands in its vicinity, both to windward and leeward, are rendered unfit for cultivation, and two of the largest rivers dried up. They have been dug for, and found boiling. The mountain exhibits a frightful prospect. Nothing to be seen but lava; not a tree nor shrub, and even most of those awful chasms, glens, and falls, formerly seen, are filled up; yet, strange to tell, very few lives have been lost.
Recommended Citation
"“Extract of a letter”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 977.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/977
