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  2. THE SYDNEY MONTHLY OVERLAND MAIL. SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMARY [?]er Columbian. OUR GOLD FIELDS.

    We gave in our Summary per Simla, May 23rd, an account of some of our gold fields abridged from the letters of our Special Commissioner. In that abridgement particulars relative to the Northern Diggings ...

    Article : 526 words
  3. LOUISA CREEK.

    This creek has been in its time, perhaps, as favourite a diggings as any in the Western District. Certain it is that it has turned out a very large amount of gold. It is situated on a high table land, that has a fall ...

    Article : 1,226 words
  4. THE MEROO.

    This river is being, or has been worked more or less throughout the whole of its length, a distance, reckoning the numerous bends and winds it makes in its course, of between 50 and 60 miles. The spots usually ...

    Article : 1,043 words
  5. THE WELLINGTON ROAD.

    The Ironbark Diggings extend, as I have said, down to the Wellington Road, where digging has been going on for a considerable time past. The main road from Bathurst to Wellington runs for some distance along ...

    Article : 239 words
  6. MURRENDI.

    The Murrendi diggings are situated on the banks of the Meroo, about four miles above its junction with the Cudgegong River. The Meroo here makes a large sweeping bend from about N. to S.W., and then back ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  7. MUCKRAWA.

    These diggings appear to be a deep hole or hollow in the hills, which tower away to the north and east in steep and heavy masses, being more broken however and less abrupt ...

    Article : 551 words
  8. MISSING FRIENDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,267 words
  9. STONEY CREEK.

    The diggings bearing this name are barely two miles from the Wellington Road. I found them all but deserted, there being scarcely twenty men left at work upon them. The sinking here, as at ...

    Article : 867 words
  10. THE IRONBARK.

    The distance from the Muckrawa to the commencement of the Ironbark diggings is only-six miles, over a good mountain road, but through a broken hilly country, with some stiff pinches for teams. To the ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  11. AVISFORD.

    This spot was fixed upon by the then Chief Commissioner of the gold-fields, Mr. Hardy, for the Government camp, as it was originally looked upon as the centre of the gold country in that particular locality. ...

    Article : 763 words
  12. TAMBAROORA.

    The gold district known by this name comprises the Lower Pyramul, the Lower Turon to its junction with the Macquaric, the Macquarie down from the mouth of the Turon, the Dirt Hole, Tambaroora, the Great ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  13. BURRENDONG.

    The Burrendong digg[?]ngs are situated amongst a series of low ranges that break off from the high mountains bordering the Macquarie River on its western bank, and about six miles in a straight line ...

    Article : 789 words
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