5 o8 THE FOUL All SCIEXCE MOXTHLY. 



Africa and the count is of Wangara and Timbuctoo. Tl 

 .Spain and Northern .^rica obtained their precious me 

 countr . The Frent of 5 _al lately took ] 

 They still found gold, ut no longer in paying juantith 

 famous Gold < ' :;t>resent furni>hes not half a million 

 year. The auriferou-sand is washed by the negroes dui 

 hours, and they are eotent with a yield which would ruin 

 enterprise. 



The Egyptia:. ned their gold from the upper Nil 



opia, attested by ins : from tbe year 1G00 In 



Herodotus mentions king of >pia who was atta< 



-. but not conqdred, \ :kled h:- ith 



chains, since gold v i 'inmon than bronz- 



Edrisi, there was so inch gold in Sofala that a copper trii 

 worth more than onlof gold. The eel I expl< 



7, found the rema ; of anc: 'Id-mines, but the L r "M o 



belongs to the | 1 necklace of tl 



Topeh, said to be thi - hundred years ol 1. an : 



seen in Boolak ; the Afghan 



time of Cambyses ; rought by the G. 



Solomon's Temple ; gold with which tl 



King of Ghana was med all these, no matter whetl 

 faldes or not, indul point to the former immen- 



of Africa, while to-' barely a million <] 



Northern Africa, as ra and the Fall> of tl 



a of sedimentary never can have fu: 



but in the interior w ck granite, gneiss, and h 



and there the aurifer s alluvial soil had been formed : bti 

 that it has been th< Highly exhausted in antiquity and tin 

 ages. According to Vb. J the na^^^have been tin 



discover auriferous ;nd. ierefoM Lie that the 



country still contain : i even 1 ^B but lar 



no longer be expectC' since its g>ld wot^ ^B have 



coast. 



Neither China n<- Japan produced at 



sumption. 



The three chief rorces ar< 

 and Australia, while he last two 

 mense alluvial terrifrv in 



from the Ural to tb river An 

 during the greater pat of 

 is found wherever 

 the washings is gr 

 discoveries of no 

 annually. The 

 in America, part] ., partly t i tin 



