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Page 11
... mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I named that on the right hand going up Mt. Lyell , on the left Mt. Owen . The valley I ...
... mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I named that on the right hand going up Mt. Lyell , on the left Mt. Owen . The valley I ...
Page 15
... mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and the Montagu Company was floated in Melbourne . Mining promoters seized ...
... mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and the Montagu Company was floated in Melbourne . Mining promoters seized ...
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... mountain . Mount Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mount Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the sum- mer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston ...
... mountain . Mount Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mount Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the sum- mer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston ...
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