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... sheep and shepherds . Within thirty years of the first settle- ment Sydney sheep owners had crossed the Blue Mountains to the inland plains and their sheep nibbled grass near gold nuggets and reefs of gold in milky quartz . Within fifty ...
... sheep and shepherds . Within thirty years of the first settle- ment Sydney sheep owners had crossed the Blue Mountains to the inland plains and their sheep nibbled grass near gold nuggets and reefs of gold in milky quartz . Within fifty ...
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... sheep runs was at Watervale , south of Burra , and he sought copper there and on his sheep run at the top of Yorke Peninsula . Sea captains are observant and therefore are sometimes good prospectors . and Hughes eventually found copper ...
... sheep runs was at Watervale , south of Burra , and he sought copper there and on his sheep run at the top of Yorke Peninsula . Sea captains are observant and therefore are sometimes good prospectors . and Hughes eventually found copper ...
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... sheep runs . And so when the price of copper was high , many prospecting pits and holes were dug and blasted from Nunther- ungie in the north to the Broken Hill in the south . In 1875 and 1876 drought captured the plains and ranges . Sheep ...
... sheep runs . And so when the price of copper was high , many prospecting pits and holes were dug and blasted from Nunther- ungie in the north to the Broken Hill in the south . In 1875 and 1876 drought captured the plains and ranges . Sheep ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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