e Gold Region of Georgia, 
in general, it may be called a country rich in that metal, I will not — 
pretend to say. The whole region is like Habersham, primitive, — 
and the rock and ferruginous hue of the soil are the same ; being alike _ 
in geology, and but little as yet developed, I would not pronounce it — 
less interesting ; in extent, it surpasses the region described in Geor- — 
Vautiey River, if viewed in any respect, is very interesting. — 
_ The scenery is picturesque beyond description. ‘The talcose ‘slate — 
predominating in the hills, leaves them barren of timber, but clothed 
with grass, rounded off and destitute of those bold cliffs, so com- 
mon in the smoky mountain ranges; the veins are placed, with re- 
mote mountains in the back ground, which ever way the view is — 
taken. 
But to the rocks again... The formation in which the gold is found — 
differs from any thing I had before seen. It is a protogene mica slate, 
passing into talcose slate, holding within its masses the largest stauro- _ 
tides, many of these crystals are of the size of a man’s wrist,* most dis- _ 
tinctly crossed and interwoven and of every size, from that of a straw 
up to several inches in diameter. The slate rock which I now men=— 
tion breaks up into rhomboidal portions. The quartz is in great mass- 
es, very compact and of a yellow hue, the gold is large and I con- 
fess I could not fix its gangue; much deposit gold is found in the | 
bottom of the river. Every part of the valley did not present like ap- 
pearances. ‘There were ferruginous spots of deposit, where the gold — 
was abundant and in fine particles, but the value of it was depressed — 
by an alledged alloy; one of the localities where it was thus found 
gave signs of much labor having been performed. An Indian oc- 
cupied and claimed the spot. 
* 
In this vicinity are the remains of ancient works ; many shafts have. 
been sunk, and (judging from the masses thrown up) to great depths; — 
one of those was through quartz rock. About thirty feet of it in 
depth lay open to the view ; there is alsoa deep and difficult eut.cross- 
ing a very bold vein of quartz, it is much filled up having been used — 
for an Indian burying place. Not far from this work of art where 
nothing short of the steel pick, could have left the traces found, are 
the remains of a small furnace; the walls had-been of soapstone ;_ 
out of the inner wall I broke off cinders. In connexion with these — 
3 Staurotides are found with the gold, in Cone creek. 
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