9 : Gold Region of Georgia, 
evation. Professor Troost, who has explored part of Smoky or the - 
Wuaka range, comparing it with other mountains he has visited, the 
altitude of which has been ascertained, believes this mountain may be 
safely stated at four thousand feet above the level of the sea. The 
Blue ridge is still more elevated ; though the approach to this eleva- 
tion is so gradual at most of the places where the road passes, that 
we might at first doubt of its having a superior elevation. ‘The very 
great fall of the waters having their source in the Blue ridge to the 
point where the Wuaka is broken down by their current, and also 
views taken from midway elevations between those mountains are 
saetelagtory to prove the superior elevation of the range dividing the 
waters 
Smoky mountain separates the transition from the primitive for- 
mation. ‘This may however not be uniformly true; in Washing- 
ton county, the primitive is found at one place on the north-west 
_ side, and some of the graywackes may be found in places south- 
east ; still without descending to minutie, the mountain, may well 
serve for this boundary. 
From the Chilhowee mountain, which ranges north-west of the 
Wuaka, and about twelve miles from it, until one has passed over the 
Blue Ridge in Georgia, there is presented a series of mountains. 
The larger streams winding amongst them afford narrow bottoms, 
‘and with the exception of three or four small vallies at the of 
the large streams next the Blue ridge, the country. may be ‘said | 
be almost uninhabitable ; each side of the Wuaka mountain pr esents 
-Rature in aie most romantic aspect— ; 
« Alps on Alps arise !—” 
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le whe delights in the wild and picturesque will have before bes 
an ample field. ‘To me it seemed strange that so little had been 
known of this section, where each remove and change of p al- 
ways presented something new and charming. to“the nal 
‘Streams, waterfalls, towering cliffs, peaks and hills of every degree 
of-acclivity, as we ascend the mountain; these features present a 
pleasir ‘striking assemblage of the beautiful and sublime. The 
field for the painter is infinite. I might dwell upon trees, plants, 
flowers, animals and reptiles, but my business is with the rocks. 
The natural division of the country between Chilhowee and the 
Yeona range gives three separate sections; one in Tennessee, one 
in, western North Carolina, and the other east of the Blue ridge in 
