316 METALS. 



Other gold mines exist in Lower California, the Great 

 Basin and New Mexico. 



The gold mines of the Eastern United States have pro- 

 duced of late less than a million of dollars. They are mostly 

 confined to the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, 

 and Georgia, or along a line from the Rappahannock to the 

 Coosa in Alabama. But the region may be said to extend 

 north to Canada ; for gold has been found at Canaan, N. H., 

 Bridgewater, Vt., Dedham, Mass., Albion and Madrid in 

 Maine, and on the Chaudiere river and elsewhere in Canada. 

 Gold also occurs in Arkansas and Texas. 



In Virginia, the principal deposits are in Spotsylvania 

 county, on the Rappahannock, at the United States mines 

 and at other places to the southwest ; in Stafford county, at 

 the Rappahannock gold mines, ten miles from Falmouth ; in 

 Culpepper county, at the Culpepper mines, on Rapidan river: 

 in Orange county, at the Orange grove gold mine, and at the 

 Greenwood "-old mines ; in Goochland county, at Moj-s and 

 Busby's mines ; in Louisa county, at Walton's gold mine ; 

 in Buckingham county, at Eldridge's mine. In North Car- 

 olina, the gold region is mostly confined to the counties of 

 Montgomery, Cabarrus, Mecklenberg and Lincoln, which 

 are situated about in a line running n. e. and s. w., parallel 

 nearly with the coast. The mines at Mecklenburg are prin- 

 cipally vein deposits: those of Burke, Lincoln, McDowell 

 and Rutherford, are mostly in alluvial soil. In Georgia, 

 gold mines occur in Habersham county, and at many places 

 in Rabun and Hall counties, and the Cherokee country. In 

 South Carolina, the gold regions are the Fairforest in Union 

 district, and the Lynch's creek and Catawba regions, chiefly 

 in Lancaster and Chesterfield districts ; also in Pickens 

 county, adjoining Georgia. The only mine not deserted is 

 the Dorn mine in the Abbeville district. There is gold also 

 in eastern Tennessee. 



Viewing the gold region of the eastern United States as a 

 whole, it is perceived that it ranges along the Appalachians, 

 particularly the Eastern slope, from Maine to Alabama, 

 having nearly a northeast and southwest course. 



Masses of j^old of considerable siztf have been foun 1 in 

 N<>rth Carolina. The largest was discovered in Cabarrus 

 county ; it weighed rvventy-eight pounds avoirdupois, ("steel- 

 yard weight," equals 37 lbs. troy,) and was 8 or 9 inches long 



