4 1 On Metallic Minerals. 



Honble. Judge Taschereau, to visit his seigniory of St. 

 Mary's, L. C. At that period it was reported that one of 

 his tenants had desei-ted his family and home, and had taken 

 up his residence in the woods, where he was working by 

 his own solitary manual labour, which he conceived to be 

 a silver mine. We visited the scene of his operations and 

 found an excavation about ten feet every way in — talcose 

 schist. A letter was Avritten to the Priest of the parish to 

 endeavour to withdraw the poor enthusiast from so ruinous 

 an occupation. 



NOTE 9. 



The reader has been referred to Sillinian's Journal, for 

 information respecting the gold mines in North Carolina. 

 It is proposed here to give two extracts from other sources 

 on the same subject. 



" The extent and value of the gold mines are becoming 

 every day more apparent, — of course some mines are larger 

 than others. The one at Chisholm's has been found to be 

 rich for a quarter of a mile iip the branch (of the Yadkin 

 river?) and on each side from ten to twenty yards. There 

 are many spots of from ten, twenty, to one hundred acres, 

 on which gold can be found, averaging from half a grain 

 to two grains of gold per bushel of earth. In most of these 

 cases it is not gold but water that is scarce. Gold has 

 been found in the neighbourhood of Charlotte ; those mines 

 are rich, but their extent is not yet known. The gold 

 found there is in very fine particles, embedded in ferrugi- 

 nous clay, running in veins. This is taken out, made fine, 

 then washed down, and the gold amalgamated. Chisholm's 

 gold mine is situated two miles above the narrows of the 



