The Peaks of Lyell |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 17
... ship through the bay of foam and over the sand bar . Alec the Swede , who was returning to the new rush , was an experienced sailor and he knew the treacherous entrance ; with a young member of the crew he agreed to be lashed to the ...
... ship through the bay of foam and over the sand bar . Alec the Swede , who was returning to the new rush , was an experienced sailor and he knew the treacherous entrance ; with a young member of the crew he agreed to be lashed to the ...
Page 113
... ship of 2,027 tons , 310 feet long , drawing barely ten feet of water , and capable of carrying a cargo of 800 tons at high speeds . Three times as large as any ship that had entered the harbour , the new steamer would slash freight ...
... ship of 2,027 tons , 310 feet long , drawing barely ten feet of water , and capable of carrying a cargo of 800 tons at high speeds . Three times as large as any ship that had entered the harbour , the new steamer would slash freight ...
Page 283
... ships of the Union Steamship Company , of which the largest to trade with Strahan is the Kamona , registered as 1,785 ... ship , the Kumalla , to trade with Macquarie Harbour . The result of these steps was the expansion of a trade of ...
... ships of the Union Steamship Company , of which the largest to trade with Strahan is the Kamona , registered as 1,785 ... ship , the Kumalla , to trade with Macquarie Harbour . The result of these steps was the expansion of a trade of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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