Gold Region of North Carolina. 5 
from the decomposition of rocks, which, if they did not oc- 
cupy the identical spot, at least lay in the immediate neigh- 
borhood. Circumstances which I have deeply regretted, 
have prevented Mr. Andrews from extending his researches 
rts remote from the University ; for the truth and pro- 
priety of the remarks upon which | am alone responsible, but 
in the correctness of the proposition now ae, us, we both. 
as I believe, repose equal and entire confiden 
i ilst coming to these conclusions vial reese to the 
upper country of N. Carolina, there has been no disposition 
to deny that something very different obtains in other parts. 
of the world. The immense collections of sand, loam and 
gravel, that are piled up over the primitiv rocks, in many, 
ed.* It was not therefore through ignorance of the appear-. 
ances created by a stratum of foreign matter, or ncaa 
general scepticism upon the subject, blinding our eyes a 
unfitting us for the task of observation, that we failed to find 
any 
c. The tracing of the boundaries of the alluvial district af- 
forded an oe of learning to detect, without difficulty, 
the presence of foreign loam, sand and gravel in the natural 
soil, I stated in a ovis ommunication the existence of 
c r. ing 
and exhibiting these substances upon high —< 
whilst in the neighborhood of the streams, ‘the —* evidently 
to the writer of this article, that the individual who, with- 
out paying any attention to the subjacent rocks, farther than might be neces- 
ed—collections ofsand, loam and gravel, having their origin perhapsin a c 
that has not gots elsewhere upon the surface of the “tlobe) a is pphoee 
ate to them, a particular object of inves r northern, 
whose writin mabey toh ave profited. I wish however that ante- 
rior to the publican oe the promised volume he could oe leisure to visit the 
southern States. Werner’s pa cee oor My in generalizing from too nar- 
row = cided of particulars, and m little mountains of Saxony a 
type o 
