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very coarse file. As yet they have not been found of sufficient 
depth of color and transparency for use as gems, but are quite 
unsurpassed by any beryls heretofore found in the United 
Stat hose occurring in thesoil have weathered out of cavi- 
ties in the rock where they. were formed. They were never 
imbedded, as some late work at the locality has well proven. 
Heretofore the only dependence for them has been the soil ; now 
a narrow vein bearing them has been found by the writer and 
a shaft twenty-four feet deep has been sunk on it. It was the 
beautiful color of these beryls that prompted the work that 
so unexpectedly yielded the new variety of spodumene.* There 
are good indications of yet finding here the true beryl emerald, 
and it is with this end in view, coupled with the mining of © 
the new spodumene emerald, that the writer is now at work in 
this State. 
PiatinumM.—A diligent search for traces of this metal for 
five months in the auriferous regions of the Southern States in 
the interest of Mr. T. A. Edison resulted in finding no traces 
of its existence. The five reported localities in this State (N. C.) 
were carefully examined without success. 
To the generous publicity that the late Professor Humphreys 
and Mr. J. Adlai Stephenson have given to their mineral 
researches in North Carolina, and to the sight of some of the 
many beautiful specimens they have sent north, the writer owes 
the impelling motive of his going to that State and the knowl- 
edge which has enabled him to succeed in his explorations. 
Stony Point, N. C., Nov. 20th, 1880. 
* This Journal, vol, xxi, Feb., 1881, 
