THE 



AMERICAN 

 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c 



Art. I. — Geological and Mineralogical Account of the Mining 

 Districts in the State of Georgia — western part ofJVorth Caro- 

 lina and of East Tennessee, with a map ; by Hon. Judge Jacob 

 Peck. 



The 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 

 Coweta 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 subordinate 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 the strata which 

 accompany, and may be said to form them. 



The range runs north-east and south-west, and although deviations 

 are observable ; still, in the main direction, the feature is distinct and 

 not to be overlooked. 



The principal mountains are of considerable elevation. Some ad- 

 measurements have been made to ascertain the height of Smoky 

 mountain and the Blue ridge ; but I am not apprised of any obser- 

 vations which may be relied upon as fixing the probable medium el- 



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