Download or read book Notes on the Gold Districts of California, New Holland, Russia, and America written by James Wyld and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on the Gold Districts of California, New Holland, Russia, and America: With Four Maps Sardis. In Asia Minor. It was through the produce thus obtained, that the nations on both shores of the Medi terranean Archipelago obtained that large supply of the precious metals, which had so great an influence on their advancing civilisation. It is true that individual adventurers were ever ready to engage in enterprises which promised wealth, and although the voyage of the Argonauts engaged the best blood of Hellas, yet neither gold robbing nor gold working enriched the nations of the west. At a later historical period, military expeditions brought large supplies of the precious metals into Europe, but there is no marked epoch of prosperity which can be assigned to their influence. 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.