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312 Mr. Jonzs’s Account of a Volcano 
IX. An Account of Wceft- River Mountain, and the Appear- 
ance of there having been a Volcano init, Ina Letter from 
DANTEL JONES, Efa; of Hindídale, to the Rev. JoserH 
WILLARD. Prejdent of the Univerfity at Cambridge, V. 
Prey ATH: 
Hindfdale, “November 2, 1783. 
"USCOIRS 
"RECEIVED your' s of the 18th of Auguft laft, and ob- 
ferved the contents : and as Iam not only willing, but dcfirous 
of doing all in my power to aid the literati in their purfuit of 
knowledge, immediately upon the receipt of your letter, (altho' 
I have often been upon We/f-River Mountain) repaired: there 
again, with the beft guides, and thoroughly explored the fame. 
The Mountain is fituate about twelve miles north of Mefa- 
cbufetts line, on the eaft fide of, and adjoining Conneticut- Ri- 
ver, in the c county of Chefbire,. and ftate of New-Hampfhire, 
and oppofite ı the c mouth of esed from which its s name 
ifes. 
© <The Mouhti. in "at its parts! contains bout ina thou- 
fand acres of land, and is very uneven. The fouth and weft 
. afcents, very p: : the north and eaft not fo fteep, but very 
ragged. 
On the fouth fide ‘of the Mountain, bot eighty rods from 
the fummit, there has been an eruption,—perhaps not within 
e prefent, or laft century. "The peafants, in the neighbour- 
the Mountain, difcovered this place, and became pof- 
th the idea of gold duft being in the Mountain, and 
d down i into a folid body, by the extreme heat of 
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