214 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Literature. 
So far as the writer is aware no previous detailed study of the Tallu¬ 
lah district has been made; but a number of references to the region 
occur in both geologic and physiographic literature, and one short 
paper on the geology of the Tallulah Gorge has appeared. Only 
those accounts which are of interest in connection with the present 
problem are specially reviewed here. 
Brief descriptions of the Tugaloo, Chattooga, and Tallulah Rivers 
are contained in a “Report on the water-power of the southern Atlan¬ 
tic water-shed,” by Professor George F. Swain, published in the 
10th Census reports, 1885. 
About 1892 there was published in the Atlanta journal an article 
on the Tallulah Gorge, written by Dr.. W. L. Jones, formerly pro¬ 
fessor of geology at the LTniversity of Georgia. This article is said 
to have been rather general in character (S. P. Jones, ’01, p. 67) 
but has not been seen by the writer. 
In a report on the “Corundum deposits of Georgia,” published in 
1894, Francis P. King devotes a chapter to the geology of the crystal¬ 
line belt which crosses the northern half of the State, and in which 
the Tallulah region is located. Concerning the gorge King writes: 
“Before leaving this subject, an individual topographical feature, 
showing the wonderful erosive power of a river, is worthy of men¬ 
tion— the Tallulah Gorge in the southern part of Rabun county. 
Its superb grandeur people have traveled far to see; as a geological 
feature, its fame is world-wide. This narrow gorge is several miles 
long, and nearly a thousand feet deep.” 
In 1895, a paper by Dr. C. Willard Hayes on “The southern Appa¬ 
lachians” was published as a National geographic monograph. On 
page 327 of that report occurs the following paragraph: “The 
divide between the Atlantic and Gulf drainage follows the crest of 
the Blue Ridge, as already described, from the Roanoke southwest- 
ward. The eastward-flowing streams are pressing this divide grad¬ 
ually westward by the capture of territory from less favorably situated 
streams west of the divide. Cases of recent capture are seen at the 
head of the Linden and Tallulah Rivers, the falls on those streams 
showing that the newly acquired territory has not yet been in their 
possession sufficiently long to be completely subdued.” 
The following year, 1896, Marius R. Campbell, in discussing 
