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... mountain ranges capped with white quartzite or pink conglomerate rock , winter snow , tangled forest and scrub so thick that a mile a day was often good travelling ; a land of heavy rainfall , swampy button - grass plains and swift ...
... mountain ranges capped with white quartzite or pink conglomerate rock , winter snow , tangled forest and scrub so thick that a mile a day was often good travelling ; a land of heavy rainfall , swampy button - grass plains and swift ...
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... high quartzose mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I 6 THE PEAKS OF LYELL A Silver Lining The Great Gambler I.
... high quartzose mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I 6 THE PEAKS OF LYELL A Silver Lining The Great Gambler I.
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... mountain . Mt Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mt Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the summer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston towards the ...
... mountain . Mt Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mt Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the summer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston towards the ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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