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Page 19
... carried by word of mouth to the Pieman where a few score diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a ...
... carried by word of mouth to the Pieman where a few score diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a ...
Page 27
... carried from Strahan , thirty miles away . A return trip took three days of perspiring toil , and in winter the last miles were covered by candlelight - dim light for a track strewn with fallen trees and thick scrub , and often veiled ...
... carried from Strahan , thirty miles away . A return trip took three days of perspiring toil , and in winter the last miles were covered by candlelight - dim light for a track strewn with fallen trees and thick scrub , and often veiled ...
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... carrying Robert Sticht and the most valuable shipment of cargo ever made by his company , grounded on the sand bar ... carried their swags along the formation to the long string of advancing tents . Frequent landslides in the cuttings ...
... carrying Robert Sticht and the most valuable shipment of cargo ever made by his company , grounded on the sand bar ... carried their swags along the formation to the long string of advancing tents . Frequent landslides in the cuttings ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Creek Crotty Crotty's diggers dividends Dixon Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire floated furnaces gold goldfield Gormanston gossan Gould gully hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell North Lyell Company open cut ounces paid pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery rush Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting South Sticht Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc