3. Native Gold is so minutely disseminated in several rocks, that its 

 presence can be discovered only after pounding and washing. It occurs 

 frequently in beds, in small nodules imbedded in Quartz, along with 

 Iron Pyrites, Grey Antimony and Wolfram : rarely also, it is found in 

 crystals in these situations : in veins also, with the same minerals, and 

 with Blende, Calcareous Spar, Native Silver, &.c. Native Gold is often 

 found in the sand of rivers, in valleys and plains, into which it has been 

 carried from its original repositories, in the shape of larger or smaller, 

 generally, flat pebbles, often mixed with Quartz. 



The most extensive deposits of Native Gold occur in alluvial soil in 

 Brazil, Mexico and Peru: also in Transylvania, a considerable quantity 

 of gold is obtained from stream-works. At Wicklow in Ireland, and in 

 Perthshire, and near the Lead Hills in Scotland, in several districts of 

 Germany, gold is found in the sand of rivers, or in alluvial deposits from 

 them. The mountain of Vorospatak near Alrudbanya in Transylvania, 

 is a remarkable instance of a rock impregnated throughout with a small 

 portion of gold, which occurs crystallized, and in various imitative shapes, 

 in the numerous short and narrow veins which traverse it in all direc- 

 tions. This mountain consists of a kind of grey wacke and porphyry. In 

 a similar rock it is found at Salzburg, and many other places along the 

 chain of the Alps, and in the Schlangenberg in Siberia. At OrTenbanya 

 in Lower Hungary, it is accompanied by Grey Antimony; and at Za- 

 lathna and Nagyag, by Native Tellurium. 



Native Gold, unknown within the U. States, until within a very few 

 years, has now been traced from the Chaudiere river in Lower Canada, 

 to the southern boundary of the Cherokee nation in Georgia; and it is 

 known to exist in a nearly unbroken line, from the Rappahannock in 

 Virginia, to the Coosa in Alabama. Th most important mines in this 

 extensive range, are.those situated in the Carolinas and Georgia. The 

 mines of North Carolina are chiefly wrought in the three ranges of 

 counties between Frederic and Charlotte, which lie in a direction about 

 N. E. and S.W., corresponding with the general line of the coast. The 

 Mecklenburg mines are the most valuable, and are for the most part 



