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... Hargraves was lodging in San Francisco to avoid winter on the goldfields , he wrote to a 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 ...
... Hargraves was lodging in San Francisco to avoid winter on the goldfields , he wrote to a 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 ...
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... Hargraves in fact made a less spectacular but none the less sensible observation , that Australia's gold was not being mined because few who sought it knew where to search or how to search . Indeed , Hargraves suffered from the same ...
... Hargraves in fact made a less spectacular but none the less sensible observation , that Australia's gold was not being mined because few who sought it knew where to search or how to search . Indeed , Hargraves suffered from the same ...
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... Hargraves meantime had gone over the mountains to 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 ...
... Hargraves meantime had gone over the mountains to 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 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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