Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies: With a Glimpse of the Gold FieldsRichard Bentley, 1852 - Australasia |
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Page 105 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
Page 31 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 32 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray: Upon an huge great Earth-pot steane he stood, From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romane Flood.
Page 55 - And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds, And the willow-branches hoar and dank, And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds, And the wave-worn horns of the echoing bank, And the silvery marish-flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among, Were flooded over with eddying song.
Page 204 - These were to be our teams. Dividing ourselves into two parties, Dr and Mrs , and I, got into one, and two tolerably weighty gentlemen into the other. Upon this, the prisoners seized certain bars, crossing the front and back of the carriages, and, after pushing them with great toil up a considerable plane, reached the top of a long descent...
Page 327 - His attention was first called to the lucky spot by observing a speck of some glittering yellow substance upon the surface of a block of the quartz, upon which he applied his tomahawk and broke off a portion.
Page 329 - In the first place, the quartz blocks formed an isolated heap, and were distant about one hundred yards from a quartz vein, which stretches up the ridge from the Murroo Creek. The locality is the commencement of an undulating table-land, very fertile, and is contiguous to a neverfailing supply of water in the above-named creek. It is distant about fifty-three miles from...
Page 328 - The largest of the blocks was about a foot in diameter, and weighed 75 Ibs. gross. Out of this piece 60 Ibs. of pure gold was taken. Before separation it was beautifully encased in quartz.
Page 205 - ... although a man sitting behind contrived, more or less, to lock a wheel with a wooden crow-bar when the descent became so rapid as to call for remonstrance. Accidents have not unfrequently occurred when travellers by this rail have encouraged, or not forbidden, the men to abandon the trucks to their own momentum down the hills; for there are several sharpish turns in the line, and the tramway is of the rudest construction. Occasionally, perhaps, these capsizes have not been purely accidental when...
Page 421 - This colony is becoming a mining country, as well as South Australia. Copper, lead, and gold, are in considerable abundance in the schists and quartzites of the Cordillera (Blue Mountains, &c.). Vast numbers of the population are going to California, but some day, I think, we shall have to recall them.