(Tiles tf) 
N°. XXVIII. . 
An account of a Hill, on the borders of N. Carolina, Sup- 
pyfed to have been aVolcano.. Ina Letter from a Conti- 
nental Officer, refiding in that neighbourhood, to Dr. J... 
Greenway, uear Peterfburg, in Virginia. . 
DEAR, DQACT OR, 
Read Feb. GREEABLE to promife I have vifited the- 
295 aa Volcano on Dan-River, or the Burffed-Hill, 
as the people there call it; and here fend you a defcripti- 
on of it as-accurate as I could take on the {pot. 
The bafe of the hill is about three quarters of a mile in 
circumference in form of a cone or fugar loaf one hundred 
and thirty feet high. It appears to be formed of lava, mix- 
ed with ‘round white ftones, that-break with a {mall ftroke. 
There are large rocks or mafles of the melted matter, 
weighing a thoufand weight or more, lying on the fummit 
of the hill, mixed with pebbles, fuppofed to be the place» 
where the. lava burfted out ; from which it took its courfe, 
downward,‘ and through the fecond low grounds of Dan- - 
River, for near half a mile. 
This ftream appears to have been fix or eight inches ; 
deep, but is now crumbled to pieces, upon which there is 
a mould of rich earth formed five or fix inches thick, 
The lava, iffuing from the hill, has fpread over .all the 
adjacent level ground which is not lefs than one hundred 
arid fifty yards wide. 
This level pla; or fecond low grounds, was covered 
with large timber-trees, but has been cieared fince, and 
cultivated. The hill itfelf is covered with trees, fome of . 
which appear to be old. There . 
