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in this direction along the western slope, until, in Butte, Plumas, 
Shasta and Siskyiou counties, the immense quantities of these 
deposits which determine the character of the mining. Here 
We find more hydraulic workings and deep diggings. In these 
have been found the remains of more large animals, the ele- 
in the form of ashes, which have been arranged into strata by 
water or other means, and afterward solidified to various degrees 
* Here it should be understood that I use the term metamorphic only for rocks 
not granite, or granitic, for convenience merely, and without advocating any theory 
in regard e origin of the granite,—w. H. B. 
