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... track from Strahan to Howard's Plains , the scene of Howard's discovery . The track cutters , George Meredith and Ted Peevor , received the miserly sum of £ 10 a mile , and the violent oaths of every prospector who dragged heavy pack ...
... track from Strahan to Howard's Plains , the scene of Howard's discovery . The track cutters , George Meredith and Ted Peevor , received the miserly sum of £ 10 a mile , and the violent oaths of every prospector who dragged heavy pack ...
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... track , made of young saplings laid along the track , might float , sink , or up - end - cracking the horse and spattering the rider with mud . For a time packhorses jogged along from Strahan to Lynch's Creek until the track became so ...
... track , made of young saplings laid along the track , might float , sink , or up - end - cracking the horse and spattering the rider with mud . For a time packhorses jogged along from Strahan to Lynch's Creek until the track became so ...
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... track rose a thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file ...
... track rose a thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file ...
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