Excerpt from The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia The principal gold region of Georgia is confined to a belt from one to five miles in width, stretching in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, parallel with the Blue Ridge, through Habersham, White and Lumpkin counties, and be yond into Alabama. The region of country including these mines was originally owned and inhabited by the Cherokee Indians, but there is reason to believe that they were entirely ignorant of the existence of gold in their soil. Their orna ments were of silver, and gold ornaments were not known among them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.