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... gullies of New Zea- land , pegged the first ground on the west coast , the St. Dizier lease at North Heemskirk , on 15 February 1877. In his eagerness to apply for a lease he walked through the scrub to the Pieman and rowed an old punt ...
... gullies of New Zea- land , pegged the first ground on the west coast , the St. Dizier lease at North Heemskirk , on 15 February 1877. In his eagerness to apply for a lease he walked through the scrub to the Pieman and rowed an old punt ...
Page 34
... gullies , heard the roar of unseen mountain streams , and staggered into the goldfield on the second day . In September , at the height of the rush , two hundred diggers - ten times the winter popula- tion - had pitched their tents in ...
... gullies , heard the roar of unseen mountain streams , and staggered into the goldfield on the second day . In September , at the height of the rush , two hundred diggers - ten times the winter popula- tion - had pitched their tents in ...
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... gullies of the Linda Valley amidst a dreary waste of black peat and stumps . Here the landscape was dotted with small tunnels and mullock dumps , boiler houses and smiths ' forges , shafts sur- mounted by tall poppet heads or windlasses ...
... gullies of the Linda Valley amidst a dreary waste of black peat and stumps . Here the landscape was dotted with small tunnels and mullock dumps , boiler houses and smiths ' forges , shafts sur- mounted by tall poppet heads or windlasses ...
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