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  GEOLOGY. 
  

  

  few 
  miles 
  soutli 
  of 
  Meadville; 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  braneli 
  about 
  

   a 
  mile 
  northeast 
  from 
  the 
  State 
  House 
  at 
  Jackson; 
  and 
  

   in 
  a 
  eut 
  on 
  the 
  railroad, 
  near 
  Brandon, 
  Rankin 
  County. 
  

   (See 
  Plate 
  XII. 
  Fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  IROX 
  PYRITES, 
  GOLD, 
  COPPER, 
  AND 
  LEAD. 
  

  

  How 
  frequently 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  gold 
  and 
  other 
  valu- 
  

   able 
  metals 
  has 
  been 
  authoritatively 
  announced 
  in 
  the 
  

   State 
  may 
  be 
  remembered, 
  perhaps, 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  

   practised 
  upon 
  the 
  credulit}' 
  of 
  the 
  connnunity 
  in 
  the 
  

   form 
  of 
  a 
  new^spaper 
  hoax, 
  calculated 
  to 
  create 
  a 
  sensa- 
  

   tion 
  for 
  a 
  time, 
  and 
  most 
  conveniently 
  fill 
  a 
  vacant 
  cor- 
  

   ner 
  in 
  a 
  paper 
  which 
  dearth 
  of 
  news, 
  or 
  want 
  of 
  other 
  

   matter 
  may 
  have 
  left 
  unoccupied. 
  

  

  Last 
  year, 
  an 
  imposing 
  statement, 
  which 
  went 
  the 
  

   rounds 
  in 
  the 
  public 
  prints, 
  sent 
  some 
  hundreds 
  to 
  the 
  

   pine 
  hills 
  in 
  Marion 
  County, 
  to 
  search 
  for 
  an 
  imaginary 
  

   placer. 
  

  

  Just 
  now, 
  another 
  discovery 
  is 
  sprung 
  — 
  the 
  scene, 
  a 
  

   little 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  neighboring 
  County 
  of 
  Jackson 
  ; 
  

   and 
  the 
  most 
  nnmlstal'ahJe 
  signs 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  gold 
  

   are 
  given, 
  even 
  to 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  vein 
  and 
  di}^ 
  of 
  the 
  

   stratum. 
  

  

  Vein 
  rock, 
  properly 
  so 
  called, 
  is 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  found, 
  in 
  

   all 
  probability, 
  within 
  two 
  hundred 
  miles 
  of 
  the 
  locality, 
  

   and 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  district 
  consists 
  of 
  loose 
  and 
  

   unconsolidated 
  sand-clay 
  and 
  gravel. 
  

  

  However 
  abundantly 
  diluvial 
  gold 
  sands 
  may 
  ^^ossihli/ 
  

   exist, 
  the 
  veiiis 
  and 
  the 
  dip, 
  at 
  least, 
  are 
  purely 
  imaginary. 
  

  

  The 
  introductory 
  explanations 
  which 
  have 
  before 
  been 
  

   given, 
  and 
  again 
  referred 
  to, 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  coal, 
  apply 
  

   equally 
  here. 
  

  

  