CHINA, MONGOLIA, AND JAPAN. 



Table of Gold Washings and Mines. — Continued. 



61 



Province. 



Department. 



District. 



Place and circumstances of occurrence. 



Kwaugtung. 



Shauchau F. 



Yingte H. 



Gold. 





Hwuichau F 



Hoyuen H. 



Gold at Lantienta. 





Shauking P. 



Kaikien H. 



Gold at Kiutsung. 





" " 



Kwangning H. 



Gold at Kinkuug. 



Hunan. 



Changsha F. 





Gold. 





Hangchau F. 





Gold. 





Yuenchau F. 





Gold. 





Changteh F. 





Gold. 





Chin C. 





Gold. 





Tsing C. 





Gold. 





Yocbau F. 





Gold. 



Kwangsi. 



Liucliau F. 



Yung H. 



Gold. 





" " 



Laiping H. 



Gold. 





Sz'ngan F. 



Pin C. 



Gold. 





" " 



Tsienkiang H. 



Gold. 





« ii 



Shangling H. 



Gold. 





Pingloli F. 



Pingloh H. 



Gold. 





11 II 



Yungngan C. 



Gold. 





Wuchau F. 



Hwaitsih H. 



Wash gold in river at Kinngohshan TO li W. 





Sinchau F. 



Kwei H. 



Gold. 





Nanning F. 



Hwang C. 



Gold miues. 



Kweichau. 



Tungjin F. 





Gold-sand washings 100 li W. in the Sungchi R., 

 and 140 li W. in the Tichi R. 





TsuniF. ' 



Tungtsz H. 



Gold. 



Yunnan. 



Tsuhhiung F. 



Yau C. 



Coarse gold in the upper Tayauho R. 





11 11 



Tsuhhiung H. 



Gold in the Yenshan. 





Likiang F. ' 





Gold washed in many places in the Kinshakiang 

 for a distance of 500 li. 





Yungchang F. 





Gold mines in the Changpangshan. 

 Gold washings in the Lantsan R. 





Tungchuen F. 





Gold washings in the Kinshakiang. 





Yungpeh (Ting) 





Gold. 



Before attempting to sketch the distribution of the kno^vn formations of the 

 Chinese empire, I will give the principal reasons for assuming a general simplicity 

 in the geological structure of that country; for believing that the surface of the 

 Eighteen Provinces is made up almost exclusively of the following formations : the 

 Granito-metamorphic,^ the Devonian limestone, the Triassic, Coal measures, and 

 the younger Tertiary and Post-tertiary deposits. 



Wherever the rocks beneath the Devonian limestone were seen, in central and 

 in northern China, these were found to be either metamorphic schists, or granitoid 

 rocks, with the one exception of a thin bed of sandstone, already mentioned as under- 

 lying the limestone at the entrance to the Lukan gorge of the Yangtse. At the 

 Moiling pass, on the northern boundary of Kwangtung, the limestone is said to rest 

 on granite. 



An exception to this rule exists, perhaps, along the coast range in southeastern 

 China, where the valley of the Canton river is said to expose an extensive forma- 

 tion of " graywacke" resting on granite. 



' By the Granito-metamorphic formation is here meant the stratified and non-stratified rocks of 

 different ages, older than the Devonian limestone. 



