Excerpt from The Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland: And a General Outline of the Gold Regions of the World, With a Treatise on the Geology of Gold The reason for my belief that gold would probably be found in England was that of the similarity of structure and position of the rocks to those of our Australian regions and elsewhere. Against this was the fact that English geologists, who had laboriously investigated the Silurian and other rocks, had not discovered gold, and had pronounced most unfavourably of the gold resources of England. I could not fail to be struck with the circumstance that Sir Roderick Murchison, who had so much contributed to the discovery of the gold regions of Australia, by pointing out their conformity with the Silurian rocks of the Ural, did not recognize any such conformity as to gold between the Silurian system of England, and that of the Ural, nor between that of England and Australia. 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.