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Excerpt from A History of the Precious Metals, From the Earliest Times to the Present These observations appeared to me so important that, so soon as my sfi'airs permitted, I set out for California, where I have since resided, to verify and extend them. The evi dence obtained induced me to combine with it a general history of the precious metals, begun some years before, so that the entire work might form a more or less complete collection of essential information on the subject. 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.