188 Miscellanies. 
The rocks in the Ocoee district are arranged in the order named 
above. The glossy aluminous slate it was found had been mis- 
taken for plumbago; but near the same place (Citico creek) there 
is a bloomery for iron, and decisive indications of iron ore; the 
bloomery is supplied chiefly from banks about two miles off. 
Tellico river rolls in constant rapids, in its course towards the 
Tennessee, and forms a cataract about two hundred feet high, 
and bears along gold and other valuable minerals. Dr. Troost 
was present in 1831, when gold was found there for the first 
time; the quantity hitherto found is small, quantities being de- 
rived as is supposed, from the primary mountains of North Caro- 
lina, whence the Tellico comes. Dr. Troost thinks there is much 
less gold in the Ocoee district than has been generally imagined ; 
still there were parties of diggers that sustained their rights by 
force, and the usual delusion prevailed of inferring ores from 
Jack with the lanthern and other lights being seen, and from 
explosions being heard ; and the divining rod (a forked twig of 
hazel or peach tree, which, as they assert, turns in the hand of 
the adept when he approaches the hidden treasure) was much 
relied upon. Carnelian has been found among the transported 
ruins of the Tellico, ee anal matr- 
bles abound in East Tenne 
‘Dr. Troost has made a vain collection of organic remains, 
and his report contains in a note an important catalogue of them. 
His name is sufficient authority for their accuracy. , 
Pennsylvania.—The second annual report, by Prof. Henry 
D. Rogers, State Geologist, presents the following divisions of 
the subject: Of the seat of the operations of the survey—Mode 
of conducting the geological observations—An outline of the ge- 
ological structure and mineral resources of the north-eastern half 
of the Appalachian region of the State. 
Formation No. I.—Sandstone of the South Mountain. 
I1.—Limestone of the Kittatinny Valley. 
IlI.—Slate of the same valle 
IV.—Sandstones and emidbcompraten of the Kittatinny or Blue Mountain. 
V.—Red and variegated sandstones and shales of the valley N: W. of the Kitta- 
tinny mountain, and of Montour’s ridge. 
ue along the northern base of the Kittatinny mountain, and 
along both sides of Montour’s ridge. 
VIL.—Sandstone of the first ridge north of the Kittatinn 
y mou 
_ VITI.—Of the olive colored slate of the valley between the Rivatnny ‘at sec- 
ond mountains. 
