village we rode about half a mile & forded the
Catarinugus Creek

to the Indians saw mill - here we
rode out of the main creek into the Bed of the
small creek which the mill is built on - the
bottom of which is a slate rock -on about 80 or
100 yards we came to the spring mentd the 18th Ult
an indian had a accompanied us with a fire brand
on the application of whichto the Effluvium
arising it immediately burnt into a Blasett
burned with considerable heat as long as we in
clined to view it & would have continued to burn
as we were told till extinguished by a sudden
Dash of water or blow of wind - I dashed afraid
of it out with water pour the creek but al
most as soon as I had done the air caught again
then took his hat & blew it quite out.

The Rock in this place is cracked across in
several directions & the Babbling appears in
the centre, where is the largest opening, at
this place is first caught but soon exten
ded itself for several feet along
the other cracks the flame emitting a
sulpherous Effluvia, mixed with some
other smell- the Water in the Creek was
now very low, but Jacob

told us that when the
Spring was coverd with the Creek as it often
was it produced a much larger Flame
than we saw- At a small Distances
from this Spring Jacob told us there was
an Antient Fortification containing
about