130 Notice of Gold in North Carolina. 
the branches, and in opening several of the veins of quartz on both 
sides of the river. 
A person accustomed to the indications of gold in this region, 
would, in the course of a few weeks or months, be able to make up 
an opinion which might guide future researches or decide the previ- 
ous question. There is a large tract of low meadow ground on the 
Mount Ephraim estate, which greatly resembles, in its general fea- 
tures, the grounds that are now profitably washed for gold at the 
Whitehall mines in Spotsylvania county: this tract ought to be ex- 
amined by digging to the slate, and washing the gravel lying 
above it 
There can be no reason to doubt, that both in the washings of the 
alluvial matters and in the regular quartz veins, gold will be found. 
It is, however, meet to predict in what quantity, but as rich 
disclosures of gold have been made in the immediate vicinity, as 
these tracts present the peculiar features of the gold region, and as 
some gold has been found upon them, a favorable result may be rea- 
sonably looked for, although nothing but actual trials will give full 
assurance. ‘These tracts have important natural advantages. A 
great river, affording unlimited hydraulic power, passes through the 
lands. Their elevation above the water insures an easy drainage, and 
there is a large quantity of good timber ; all these resources would, 
in case of actual mining, prove of great importance. 
Remark.—In the experiments of a public course of chemistry, I 
have recently used portions of the gold which I extracted at the 
Virginia mines ; it proved remarkably pure, and gave fine results in 
every instance in which it was tried. 
Arr. XI.—Notice of some facts connected with the Gold of a por- 
tion of North Carolina; in a letter to the Editor, dated Char- 
lotte, (N.C.) June 6, 1831, from Franxuin L. Surru, Esq. 
Remark.—The publication of this letter, so many years after its 
date, demands an explanation, which will be given in another way 
tothe writer. To the public it is sufficient to say, that it was called 
out from the files where it had lain so long, in consequence of the 
interest excited in the Editor’s mind by his recent examination of 
“the gold region of Virginia ; and on account of the striking similarity 
of most of the facts stated in this letter, to those which he there saw, 
