North Carolina and Tennessee. 3 
Georgia. A remarkable chain of mountains lies along the course of 
the heads of Frenchbroad. Some of the highest peaks in this chain 
have been described in the American Journal of Science. At the 
other extremity of the bounds I have allotted myself, the parallel 
position of mountain ranges is in some measure lost. The Blue 
ridge and the Wuaka approach each other and form jointly the sep- 
aration of the eastern from the western waters. As this new formed 
range continues west, another range not less formidable approaches 
from the north, Waldeus ridge and Cumberland mountain ; these 
unite themselves with the former, and this union takes the name of 
the Lookout mountain. At this point of intersection, where the un- 
ion of immense mountains on either side once formed a barrier to 
the streams which flowed from fifty thousand square miles: of coun- 
try ; the evidence at this place of the war of elements is the admira- 
tion of all who pass the broken mountain, through the suck and boil- 
ing chaldron, near the confines of the state of Tennessee. The pow- 
er that gave such magic to the scene at Harper’s ferry, had operated 
‘here also ; and while the trident made in the one place, a passage 
for the slippery element to the east; another stroke at one thousand 
miles distance, cleared a passage for the same element to the saad 
romantic and not less sublime. - 
Leaving for the present further delineations in saileni let us tun 
to the section in Georgia, east of the Blue ridge. The discovery of 
gold in Habersham county has been so recent, not more than two years 
since, that but little has been done to develop the metals concealed 
there. A gentleman of the name of Wilhero, made researches by 
comparing the face of the country and appearance of the branches and 
streams with the gold section in North Carolina, and found deposits of 
gold through Habersham and Hall counties, and then discovery follow- 
ed ed discovery. In the Cherokee nation which was. — by the 
Chestetee river, the indications of gold were not strong, but 
caused it to be proclaimed richer than any part of the region hitherto 
explored. The nation was intruded on asa common, and for a time, 
not less ihan five thousand adventurers dug up the face of the coun- 
try ; rich, as it certainly was, it is questionable whether the counties 
spoken of were not equally so; the lands in the latter being private 
property, were not overrun as was the nation ; and all the hands em- 
- ployed in collecting gold on the lands granted, amounted, it is be- 
lieved, to not more than one thousand ; the owners of the land were 
many of them poor and destitute of enterprise. With the exception 
