A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . and inall these localities is accessible to anyman who has the strength to use a panor washer, a spade and pickaxe. The rivers, in forming their channels,or breaking their way through the hills,have come in contact with the quartzcontaining the gold veins, and by con-stant attrition cut the gold into fine flakesand dust, and it is found among the sandand gravel of their beds at those placeswhere the swiftness of the current re-duces it, in the dry season, to the n
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . and inall these localities is accessible to anyman who has the strength to use a panor washer, a spade and pickaxe. The rivers, in forming their channels,or breaking their way through the hills,have come in contact with the quartzcontaining the gold veins, and by con-stant attrition cut the gold into fine flakesand dust, and it is found among the sandand gravel of their beds at those placeswhere the swiftness of the current re-duces it, in the dry season, to the nar-rowest possible limits, and where a widemargin is, consequently, left on eachside, over which the water rushes, dur-ing the wet season, with great force. As the velocity of some streams isgreater than others, so is the gold foundin fine or coarse particles, apparentlycorresponding to the degree of attritionto which it has been exposed. Thewater from the hills and upper valleys,in finding its way to the rivers, has cutdeep ravines, and, wherever it came incontact with the quartz, has dissolvedor crumbled it in pieces. li =n. 624 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. In the dry season these channels aremostly without water, and gold is foundin the beds and margins of many of themin large quantities, but in a much coarserstate than in the rivers ; owing, undoubt-edly, to the moderate flow and tempo-rary continuance of the current, whichhas reduced it to smooth shapes, not un-like pebbles, but had not sufficient forceto reduce it to flakes or dust.
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