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APPENDIX C. 
Proe. W. C. Kerr, 
State Geologist of North Carolina : 
Sir: — T beg to submit the following preliminary report on the min- 
erals found in the State of North Carolina. The time allotted to me tor 
the preparation of the same having been very short, and most of the 
principal localities of minerals being at present inaccessible, my list neces- 
sarily must be very imperfect ; it shows, however, a variety ot highly 
interesting and commercially important minerals and ores, which is 
greater than that of any other State in the Union. It is to be hoped that 
the wisdom of your Legislature will order the continuation of the geolog- 
ical survey, which has already given such important results to the State, 
and that a more liberal appropriation may enable you to continue the 
work on a larger scale. The materials collected for the mineralogical 
report can in the meantime be worked up, the various ores and minerals 
be analyzed and the results be presented in a more finished shape. 
I am under obligations to several gentlemen for the assistance which 
they have given in the preparation of the list of the North Carolina inin- 
erals, especially to General Clingman, of Asheville, Dr. Hunter, of Cot- 
tage Home, Lincoln county, Dr. Asbury, of Charlotte, Rev. C. D. Smith, 
of Franklin, Macon county, and many others. Many promises of assis- 
tance have been made, but, unfortunately, nearly as many have been for- 
gotten, and it is to be hoped that those, who made them will in the future 
show a more livel} 7 interest in the work, which we are doing, by sending 
to the Museum, at Raleigh, everything in their immediate neighborhood, 
which which may be of interest, so that it can be described and preserved. 
Although it might have been more convenient to adopt in this prelimi- 
nary report another plan and to put the different ores ot one metal under- 
one head, etc., I preferred to give at once a scientific arrangement, which 
must be the basis of a subsequent and fuller report, and I have therefore 
selected “ Dana’s System of Mineralogy ” as the best and most in use in. 
this country and Europe. 
I. Native Elements ; 
II. Compounds : — the more negative element an element belonging- 
to the Arsenic or Sulphur group ; 
1. Binary: Sulpliids and Tellurids of metals of the sulphur 
and arsenic groups ; 
