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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: suspected of declining when only 170 feet bad been readied. Yet I snw, the other day, with my own eyes, stone raised from a depth of 500 feet on the former which yielded six ounces to the ton; and, on the latter, ut double its former depth, I found the mouth of the shaft surrounded by a glittering heap of apparently far greater intrinsic value.' But, whatever may be the durability of this auriferous region of Victoria, and whatever ultimate form its goldmining operations may assume, we have endeavoured to show that it is but a mere spur in a vast system of far greater magnitude; and it is not unreasonable to infer, from the prodigious discoveries of gold in the last few years, that the true extent of the deposits of that metal are still very imperfectly known. A more minute examination into the progress which has been made since the Californian discoveries of 1847, can scarcely fail to show that the new dwellers on and around these auriferous regions are neglecting none of the more lasting bounties of nature in their search for gold, but are laying ?rapidly indeed, but not the less solidly ? the foundations of great and prosperous empires. And whatever may be the ulterior consequences of the enormous increase of gold on the uses to which that metal has hitherto been applied, it cannot be doubted that this powerful agent is rapidly contributing to the diffusion of civilisation, knowledge, wealth, and population over the globe. Art. IV.?1. Original unpublished Papers, illustrative of the Life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, preserved in Her Majesty's State Paper Office: with an Appendix. Collected and edited by W. Noel Sainsbury, of Her Majesty's State Paper Office. London: 1859. 2. Lettres incites de Pierre Paul Rubens, publiees tfapres ses Autographes. Par Emile Gachet. Bruxel...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217580915 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217580912 |
| Weight | 1.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 In |
| List Price | $34.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 494 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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