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Page 15
Some prospectors lived for weeks on mouldy flour, green bacon and damp tea;
others were not so fortunate. The majority of the men who went came from
Victoria or New Zealand where gold was the backbone of mining and the alpha
and ...
Some prospectors lived for weeks on mouldy flour, green bacon and damp tea;
others were not so fortunate. The majority of the men who went came from
Victoria or New Zealand where gold was the backbone of mining and the alpha
and ...
Page 18
Five years later the scattered flats and gullies were still giving such profitable
returns to “hatters” and prospectors that one writer estimated that 40,000 ounces
had been won from the field. At the Rocky River, a tributary of the Whyte, the
largest ...
Five years later the scattered flats and gullies were still giving such profitable
returns to “hatters” and prospectors that one writer estimated that 40,000 ounces
had been won from the field. At the Rocky River, a tributary of the Whyte, the
largest ...
Page 23
He was big and stout with a leonine head and fair bushy whiskers. He was twenty
-nine; the McDonoughs were in their early twenties. With heavy packs the three
prospectors returned to Howard's Plains. Storing some of their food in a tent, they
...
He was big and stout with a leonine head and fair bushy whiskers. He was twenty
-nine; the McDonoughs were in their early twenties. With heavy packs the three
prospectors returned to Howard's Plains. Storing some of their food in a tent, they
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Peaks of Lyell |
| Author | Geoffrey Blainey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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