8 Gold Region of North Carolina. 
country in the neighborhood of the mines, and at a distance 
from them, along the roots and on the other side of the 
mountain, it has never been 1 my lot to meet with these traces 
of be ravages of a current.* 
. If it be said that the researches of Mr. Rothe were 
fr mise better pungent that he found marks of the ac- 
tion of a current—a.) n the granite near Salisbury, — 
has been ses worn by = action of water in early tim 
b.) In the acclivous banks of the Yadkin, at the nen, 
shewing that the water was once many feet above its present 
bed. In the alluvial on with which the highest 
hilis near the river, as you go up the co untry, are covered— 
reply—a.) That as his water-worn granite has, by his own 
account, a very i rregular wish ee it is from its rounded sha 
That I have traversed the mountains about the Narrows i in 
a number of different directions, and have never, except 
* Neither the Blue Ridge, nor any other singe range constitutes the barrier 
to be passed, but a body of table Lot Recher? some hundreds of feet above 
Re general level of the western aving its upper surface studded 
wit n' and the climate, poniaiaie ; ching Bote of cul coun- 
ries five . i r e li ad wa 
ters of the Kenhawa and Watauga rivers. an evidence of the wide differ- 
nce between temperature of this co’ res low the 
ridge, I: may mention that the blackberry (rubu 8 villosus) began to ripen in 
the midland counties this year =. Speed the 12th of June, and to decay and drop off 
three weeks after, but was reen in iat tes e latter date, and not more 
advanced on the 16th ee: woth o of” July a ad ash in Guilford county four 
or five weeks before. Strawberries w in etetion in in an open age and 
exposure, about the summit of th White-Top, a mountain just 
with- 
in the limits of Vi ia, on the 10th of July . The forests, th out this re- 
fiz were whitened with the Blossoms of th stand Woe (ith th 
berry (rubus villosus) was in flower, and forming its acini 
near the summit of the Grandfather on the 14th. wii 
