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... Zeehan - Ringville mountain railway in the 1890s facing 207 20 A gold dredge near Araluen , N.S.W. , about 1900 310 21 Hammer and tap miners at Wyalong , N.S.W. , in the late 1890s 310 22 Zeehan , a Tasmanian silver town 311 23 Jimmy ...
... Zeehan - Ringville mountain railway in the 1890s facing 207 20 A gold dredge near Araluen , N.S.W. , about 1900 310 21 Hammer and tap miners at Wyalong , N.S.W. , in the late 1890s 310 22 Zeehan , a Tasmanian silver town 311 23 Jimmy ...
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... ZEEHAN TRIAL HARBOUR Zeehan - Strahan Riy MT . LYELL LAKE CLAIR QUEENSTOWN STRAHAN Mi.Lyell Rly CROTTY MACQUARIE HARBOUR Nth Lyell Rly KELLY BASIN 4 Mining towns of north - western Tasmania Investors who drove in phaetons through ...
... ZEEHAN TRIAL HARBOUR Zeehan - Strahan Riy MT . LYELL LAKE CLAIR QUEENSTOWN STRAHAN Mi.Lyell Rly CROTTY MACQUARIE HARBOUR Nth Lyell Rly KELLY BASIN 4 Mining towns of north - western Tasmania Investors who drove in phaetons through ...
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... Zeehan , twin mount of Heemskirk , was sentry over many idle silver lodes , and attracted speculative money . A few miners dug trenches across the lodes and worked in oilskins down wet shafts , repaying the cheques of the small ...
... Zeehan , twin mount of Heemskirk , was sentry over many idle silver lodes , and attracted speculative money . A few miners dug trenches across the lodes and worked in oilskins down wet shafts , repaying the cheques of the small ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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