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Anr. p-Lesologica and Mineralogical Account of the Mining 
Districts in the State of Georgia—western part of North Caro- 
© Tina and of East Tennessee, with a map; by Hon. Judge Jacos 
Peck. 
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* Te most remarkable geological features presented in traversing 
the country from Knoxville, on a line south-east through the mining 
regions, are three principal ranges of mountains. The first is the 
_ Wuaka, more frequently called Smoky mountain. ‘This eminence 
is the line between North Carolina and Tennessee. The next is the 
- range ; and between thirty and forty miles in the same direc- 
tion, the Blue ridge. The first and second of these ranges are bro- 
__ ken by the waters running into the Tennessee river, as they pass off 
in a north and north-western direction. ‘The Blue ridge divides the 
waters emptying into the Ohio, and those passing directly south-east 
into the Atlantic. 
To these mountains there are shcrditinte hills and spurs of the 
‘main ranges. Most of them have a general parallel direction con- 
forming to the range of the main mountains. 
It seems to me that nothing will strike the inquirer into the geolo- 
gy of this section, as more impressive or worthy of remark, than this 
general parallelism of the principal mountains, and of ——_ 
accompany, and may be said to form them 
The range runs north-east and sconlicwridt, and although deviations 
are observable ; still, in the main direttion, the feature is distinct _ 
_ Mountain and the Blue ridge; but I am not apprised of any ob ne ie 
' -vations which may be relied upon as fixing the probable mediun ye He 
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