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... carried by word of mouth to the Pieman where a few score diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a ...
... carried by word of mouth to the Pieman where a few score diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a ...
Page 27
... carried from Strahan , thirty miles away . A return trip took three days of perspiring toil , and in winter the last miles were covered by candlelight - dim light for a track strewn with fallen trees and thick scrub , and often veiled ...
... carried from Strahan , thirty miles away . A return trip took three days of perspiring toil , and in winter the last miles were covered by candlelight - dim light for a track strewn with fallen trees and thick scrub , and often veiled ...
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... carried concentrate to Melbourne , and only eight carried copper to Port Kembla , the importance of pyrite to the port of Strahan is unmistakable . This traffic is the mainstay of the picturesque rail- way , and most of the twenty - odd ...
... carried concentrate to Melbourne , and only eight carried copper to Port Kembla , the importance of pyrite to the port of Strahan is unmistakable . This traffic is the mainstay of the picturesque rail- way , and most of the twenty - odd ...
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