Jenks' Portland Gazette. And Maine Advertiser

Phenomenon of Nature. -- A circumstance occurred in the Western part of this state, between three and four years ago, which deserves to be recorded. About 750 or 800 feet from the top of the Ragged mountain, a stream of water 17 or 18 feet deep broke out. The eruption, which resembled the sound of distant thunder, carried with it a dwelling house 27 feet by 18, 400 yards from its source; the whole disappeared in about two minutes. The aperture in the mountain is about 40 feet long and thirty wide -- the longest side of the ellipses being up the mountain, and about three feet deep. The present bed of the break is of soft rock: the surface of the earth covering, there about a stratum of rock. The stream tore up everything in its passage.

There are several other breaks in the neighborhood. One of them burst up a rock with a tree on it, and deposited it three or four feet from its original situation.

The principal spot, first mentioned, seemed to have lost its force as it descended; which appears, by the comparative height, which it was thrown, in turning the points of the mountain which run into the valley -- These breaks are on every side of the mountain; but no instance of them ever occurred until within the period mentioned above.

[Virg. pap.]