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... Sydney merchant : ' I am very forcibly impressed that I have been in a gold region in New South Wales , within three hundred miles of Sydney . ' Always restless , the idea of finding payable gold in his own land obsessed him . With the ...
... Sydney merchant : ' I am very forcibly impressed that I have been in a gold region in New South Wales , within three hundred miles of Sydney . ' Always restless , the idea of finding payable gold in his own land obsessed him . With the ...
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... Sydney to ask the government for a reward . He knew that gold mining was a lottery and that even if he found a rich field he himself might dig little gold . He knew too that all gold belonged to the Crown and that it was wise to depend ...
... Sydney to ask the government for a reward . He knew that gold mining was a lottery and that even if he found a rich field he himself might dig little gold . He knew too that all gold belonged to the Crown and that it was wise to depend ...
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... Sydney , wrote again five days later . He said that the ' excitement in Bathurst among all classes is intense ' . Hundreds of men had gone or were about to go to the diggings , and so many were taking firearms that he feared that all ...
... Sydney , wrote again five days later . He said that the ' excitement in Bathurst among all classes is intense ' . Hundreds of men had gone or were about to go to the diggings , and so many were taking firearms that he feared that all ...
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