[1]. Notes on the Distribution of Gold throughout the World. London: James Wyld, 1851.
[2]. An Historical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals. By William Jacob, Esq., F.R.S. London: 1851.
[3]. California: its Past History, its Present Position, its Future Prospects, p. 77.
[4]. We leave our readers to form their own opinion of the following passage from Mr Theodore Johnson’s “Sights in the Gold Region:”—Speaking of the Padres of the old mission of San Francisco Dolores, he says, “That these priests were cognisant of the abundance of the precious metal at that period is now well known; but they were members of the extraordinary society of the Jesuits, which, jealous of its all-pervading influence, and dreading the effect of a large Protestant emigration to the western as well as to the eastern shores of America, applied its powerful injunctions of secresy to the members of the order; and their faithful obedience, during so long a period, is another proof both of the strength and the danger of their organisation.”—(Second Edition, p. 104.)
[5]. Reports of British Association for 1849—Appendix, p. 63.
[6]. Jacob, i. chap. x. passim.
[7]. Murchison—Reports of British Association, 1849, (Appendix, pp. 61, 62.)
[8]. “In the Temeswar Bannat the washings were performed exclusively by the gypsies, who display great skill in finding it. They dig chiefly on the banks of the river Nera, where more gold is found than in the bottom of the stream.”—Jacob, i. p. 245.
[9]. A Ride over the Rocky Mountains. By the Hon. Henry J. Coke, p. 359.