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... mountain ranges capped with white quartzite or pink conglomerate rock , winter snow , tangled forest and scrub so thick that a mile a day was often good travelling ; a land of heavy rainfall , swampy button - grass plains and swift ...
... mountain ranges capped with white quartzite or pink conglomerate rock , winter snow , tangled forest and scrub so thick that a mile a day was often good travelling ; a land of heavy rainfall , swampy button - grass plains and swift ...
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... mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and the Montagu Company was floated in Melbourne . Mining promoters seized ...
... mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and the Montagu Company was floated in Melbourne . Mining promoters seized ...
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... mountain . Mount Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mount Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the sum- mer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston ...
... mountain . Mount Jukes was first pegged in February 1897 , and Mount Darwin late in the same year . Almost every morning in the sum- mer of the boom , prospectors and businessmen walked stealthily out of Queenstown and Gormanston ...
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