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... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
Page 31
... gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty- feet square , sluiced to a depth of less than four feet ...
... gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty- feet square , sluiced to a depth of less than four feet ...
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... gold in a deep valley below the long , snow - capped range of Mt. Read . Diggers who followed the creeks up Mt. Read in search of the reef which shed the alluvial gold found free gold in the gossan outcrop which marked the Mt. Read mine ...
... gold in a deep valley below the long , snow - capped range of Mt. Read . Diggers who followed the creeks up Mt. Read in search of the reef which shed the alluvial gold found free gold in the gossan outcrop which marked the Mt. Read mine ...
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