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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V GOLD-DIGGING Distribution of Gold?Prospecting?A Rush?Life at the Diggings ?Modes of Searching?Different Kinds of Gold?A Persistent Digger?Quartz and Quartz Rocks?Diamonds and Precious Stones?An English Gold-Mining Company?Exploding Un- necessarily ? Gold Escort ? Lucky Diggers ? Old Convict Diggers--Wandering and Unsettled Life at the Diggings? American Traders?A Cargo of Coffins?Chinese Settlers, and Chinese Swindlers?Introduction and Permanence of Gold- Digging?Unsatisfactory Mode of Life of Diggers. Dame Fortune would seem, at some time or other, to have been careering in a chariot over the summits of the Australian Alps, sowing as she went handsful of gold dust, and pieces of gold; but all that she scattered thus bears no proportion to the quantities which, as if she had been blindfolded, she permitted to escape from her chariot as it coursed along in a zigzag way, apparently without any determinate route or boundary, the gold running out from the chariot in streaks and patches, like meal, or wheat, on the road in the line of travelling of a dray filled with badly-tied sacks. The illustration is not precisely accurate, however, for the treasure is buried in the soil;but it may serve to convey some idea of the distribution of gold. It is scarcely possible to wash a tin dishful of earth, sand, or gravel, in the gold-producing tracts of country, without discovering a minute particle of gold, a speck just large enough for the eye to discern in the bottom of the dish, after all the earth, gravel, or sand has been carefully washed out, the gold, in consequence of its greater weight, always sinking to the bottom. This is called ' prospecting, ' and the number of specks in the bottom of the dish determines the richness or the poverty of the soil in gold. Prospec...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217685467 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217685463 |
| Weight | 0.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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