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Page 10
Dense scrub drove him south a mile and he entered the valley known today as
the Linda and looked west to the low mountain ridge , to be scarred and
honeycombed in time with tunnels , shafts and open cuts , mining copper on a
two - mile ...
Dense scrub drove him south a mile and he entered the valley known today as
the Linda and looked west to the low mountain ridge , to be scarred and
honeycombed in time with tunnels , shafts and open cuts , mining copper on a
two - mile ...
Page 178
The Linda Valley became famous for its sportsmen . On a Saturday afternoon or
evening , outside the hotels , the sight of seventy axemen chopping through logs
for a valuable purse , or sinewy old - time miners striving to hammer a steel drill ...
The Linda Valley became famous for its sportsmen . On a Saturday afternoon or
evening , outside the hotels , the sight of seventy axemen chopping through logs
for a valuable purse , or sinewy old - time miners striving to hammer a steel drill ...
Page 285
While the Queen Valley has known increasing prosperity, the mining valley
across the ridge has less than a quarter of its population of 1910. The town of
North Lyell is no more; Linda is little more than a name; and wind and fire have
left ...
While the Queen Valley has known increasing prosperity, the mining valley
across the ridge has less than a quarter of its population of 1910. The town of
North Lyell is no more; Linda is little more than a name; and wind and fire have
left ...
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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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