# Brau Kettle

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The **Brau Kettle** is a geological feature known as a [karst](/source/Karst) that is located along the [Wallpack Ridge](/source/Wallpack_Ridge) in the [Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area](/source/Delaware_Water_Gap_National_Recreation_Area) in [Sandyston Township, New Jersey](/source/Sandyston_Township%2C_New_Jersey). Its name derives from the Dutch for "brewing kettle" or "boiling kettle" which describes how water suddenly bubbles up from the ground.[1] This site is referenced in early French Jesuit and Dutch colonial manuscripts as a landmark near which colonial traders exchanged goods with the [Munsee](/source/Lenape) and other local Native American tribes. According to the [New Jersey Geological Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Jersey_Geological_Survey&action=edit&redlink=1), the feature looks like a [sinkhole](/source/Sinkhole) in dry times during the year. It is known to flow at random, after periods of precipitation, and is thought to be fed by a [sinking stream](/source/Sinking_stream) that vanishes in the forest roughly 1,800 feet away.[2]

## See also

- [Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area](/source/Delaware_Water_Gap_National_Recreation_Area)

- [Geology of New Jersey](/source/Geology_of_New_Jersey)

- [Sussex County, New Jersey](/source/Sussex_County%2C_New_Jersey)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Dalton, Richard F. Bulletin 70: Caves of New Jersey (Trenton: New Jersey Geological Survey: n.d.), 6.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Unearthing New Jersey (Newsletter) Vol. 2 No. 1 Winter 2006](http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/newsletter/v2n1.pdf). (Trenton: New Jersey Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Protection, 2006).

[41°08′24″N 74°54′47″W / 41.140°N 74.913°W / 41.140; -74.913](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Brau_Kettle&params=41.14_N_74.913_W_type:landmark_globe:earth_region:US-NJ)

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