44d Gold Mines in the United States, 



future anticipation of the most consoling kind. Persons who 

 appear to hate the very name of republican freedom, pander 

 to the feelings of a corrupt oligarchy, and visit America for 

 the purpose of ridiculing the people, and vilifying their in- 

 stitutions ; — they do not find, indeed, all the polish of man- 

 ners which may be possessed by the metropolitan citizens of 

 old established states : but, if such travellers were to visit our 

 agricultural population in the provinces of England, I am sure 

 they would meet with all the rudeness of the Americans, with- 

 out even a slight degree of their general intelligence and good 

 sense. 



The relative benefits of a cheap and a dear government may 

 be learned by the following fact, immediately connected with 

 the subject of the present communication. About the very 

 time when native gold was discovered in Carolina, a similar 

 discovery was made in the county of Wicklow in Ireland, and 

 considerable quantities of gold were found in the mountain 

 streams : among these was one specimen of pure gold weigh- 

 ing 22 oz., and another of 5 oz. On enquiring from my 

 friend. General Cockburn, when on a visit at his house in the 

 neighbourhood of the gold streams, what progress had been 

 made in the farther discovery of gold, he informed me that 

 the gold streams had been taken under the fostering care of 

 government, and a guard of soldiers placed over them ; since 



^ which time not one particle of gold had been heard of in the 



^country. 



3^' ^ I am, Sir, yours, &c. 



,, , Robert Bakewell. 



Hampsteady May 12. 1832. 



At p. 454<. of the present Number will be found some notices, sent us 

 a considerable time ago, of several instances of the discovery of gold in the 

 United States. Some short notices of diluvian deposits in the state of 

 New York, and of the fossils found in those deposits, as well as a notice 

 of the anthracite of Rhode Island, will be found in Vol. XL p. 253. — J. D. 





