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Page 73
... reefs . California Gully and Sheepshead , Golden Square , Windmill Hill , Long Gully and Job's Gully , Eaglehawk , Hustler's Reef , The Unfortunate Bolle's Reef , and a hundred other reefs and suburbs formed a vigorous straggling ...
... reefs . California Gully and Sheepshead , Golden Square , Windmill Hill , Long Gully and Job's Gully , Eaglehawk , Hustler's Reef , The Unfortunate Bolle's Reef , and a hundred other reefs and suburbs formed a vigorous straggling ...
Page 318
... reef with a surveyor named Harding who carefully defined the position of the reef with instruments . Unfor- tunately their watches were seventy - five minutes slow , so in calcula- ting the position of the reef they made an error of a ...
... reef with a surveyor named Harding who carefully defined the position of the reef with instruments . Unfor- tunately their watches were seventy - five minutes slow , so in calcula- ting the position of the reef they made an error of a ...
Page 319
... reef a legend . Investors bought shares in companies that sought Lasseter's reef or claimed to have found it . A long line of parties went west to Lasseter's country with camels or motor trucks equipped with coir mats to lay on deep ...
... reef a legend . Investors bought shares in companies that sought Lasseter's reef or claimed to have found it . A long line of parties went west to Lasseter's country with camels or motor trucks equipped with coir mats to lay on deep ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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