APPENDIX. 
crystals of a brownish red color are frequently met with in the mica 
mines of Mitchell" and Yanc y* counties; imperfect dodecahedral crys- 
tals at Weaver’s'", Jeanestown, Rutherford county, and in talcose slate, 
in Rockingham'" and Cherokee" counties. The most beautiful and perfect 
crystals are large trapezohedra, of a brownish red color, from Burke, Cald- 
well and Catawba* counties. Some of these are transparent and, when 
cut, show a peculiar play ot colors. Large crystals and crystalline masses 
of a reddish brown garnet, are found near Franklin,* Macon county, and 
on Toe river. Mitchell county. Pyrope, of good color, has been observed 
in the sands from gold washings in Burke* and McDowell counties. The 
massive mayanese garnet is abundant at Jeanestown,* Rutherford county, 
at Buckhorn,* Chatham countr, near Moore’s* Mills, Stokes county, near 
Gold Hill, in Cabarrus county, near Brevard’s Forge, one and a half miles 
from the Vesuvius Furnace,* and near Macpelah Church, Lincoln county, 
near High Shoals, Gaston county, and near Madison,* Rockingham 
county. 
Go. Zircon. 
Abundant with the gold sands of Burke,* McDowell,* Rutherford, 
Caldwell,* Mecklenburg, and other counties, in very minute yellowish 
brown and brownish white, sometimes amethystine, pink and blue crystals 
with many planes ; large greyish brown crystals ot zircons are found so 
abundant on the south side of the Blue Ridge, near Green river,* that 
General Clingman easily obtained, in a few weeks, in 1S69, one thousand 
pounds ot crystals. It is rarely found associated with chrysoberyl,* at 
Ray’s Mine, Hurricane Mountain, Yancey county. 
G6. Yesuvianite. 
A mineral, resembling vesuvianite, occurs in brownish green indistinct 
crystalline masses, intermixed with quartz, and associated with reddish 
brown garnet, in Macon county. 
67. Epidote. 
Epidote is found abundantly in North Carolina, although tine crystals 
are exceedingly rare. The finest specimen, which I have seen, is a crystal, 
in my cabinet, from the gold washings ot Rutherford county ; it is 
strongly pleochroic, like the so-called “ Puschkinite,” from the auriferous 
sands of Katharineberg, in the Era] Mountains. Yellowish and brownish 
