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Page 11
Seeing at a glance that the vale of Chamouni was the best gap through the long mountain range , he sent men back to the depot for supplies . His miners pitched their tents in the gully , halfway between the present mining towns of Linda ...
Seeing at a glance that the vale of Chamouni was the best gap through the long mountain range , he sent men back to the depot for supplies . His miners pitched their tents in the gully , halfway between the present mining towns of Linda ...
Page 142
Trent then appropriated the railway revenue to pay for the bulging sheaf of letters and cables which he sent to the directors in London . “ I can say this , ” Trent said of Mitchell , " if you had raked all the madhouses in Europe ...
Trent then appropriated the railway revenue to pay for the bulging sheaf of letters and cables which he sent to the directors in London . “ I can say this , ” Trent said of Mitchell , " if you had raked all the madhouses in Europe ...
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In the following month William Jamieson , a Mt. Lyell director , was sent to Cobar in the far west of New South Wales to negotiate for the purchase of the Great Cobar mine . The owners asked for £ 1,000,000 and another £ 100,000 to sink ...
In the following month William Jamieson , a Mt. Lyell director , was sent to Cobar in the far west of New South Wales to negotiate for the purchase of the Great Cobar mine . The owners asked for £ 1,000,000 and another £ 100,000 to sink ...
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| Title | The Peaks of Lyell |
| Author | Geoffrey Blainey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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