The New England Gold Fields. the Rocky River
EVERYTHING at the Rocky is improving. I send you a comparison of these diggings with the Merrendi, from a party at present at the latter, but who were diggers on the…
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Mining & the mines, 1857
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The New England Gold fields. the Rocky River
IF we had not been blessed with iron constitutions here, the present changeable weather would be too apt to swell our doctor's bills. The past fortnight has been…
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THE good folks of Greenock have a saying— "That it rains thirteen months a year there;" although we cannot say the same of New England, still it would appear as if the…
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Each blond of marble in the mine Conceals the Paphian queen, Apollo robed, in light divine, And Pallas the serene:…
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THE FIRST SYMPTOMS AND THE ATTACK. IN 1851, I was one of the earliest victims of the gold fever. OPHIR had been opened amid a flourish of tongues and a din of…
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MY last letter was regularly posted early this day week, but seems to have been detained somewhere, as it did not appear in Saturday's " Express." Since then there…
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THE rain has at last ceased—at least for a time. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday we had fine frosty weather, but yesterday was the coldest day I ever felt in New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rought Sketches. My First Fit of the "Gold Fever." [Communicated, by an Rx Gold Digger.] No. Ii. "Spare the Water."
TOILING up the road on Lapstone Hill, we passed and were repassed several times by a carriage containing three or four gents dressed in a style that betokened a very…
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GENTLEMEN —Considering that many of the readers of your valuable paper would like to have an authentic account of our diggings here, I will endeavour to give you…
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SINCE my last letter the weather has improved considerably, and it is to be hoped that our ways, if not our manners, will shortly mend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Sketches. My First Fit of the " Gold Fever." [Communicated, by an Ex Gold Digger.] No. Iii. the Road-various Incidents
A NEAT bridge spans the Weatherboard Creek. We turned down and laved our faces, hands, and feet in the limpid water of the streamlet. The saddle-bags were…
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" I WISH he would leave off his longwinded incidents of the road, as he calls them, and tell us something of the diggings, if be has really been there at all." "Quite…
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WE are now blessed with milder weather and a blue sky, and the general toast is" Long may they last." I am sorry to say that in the new rush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Sketches. My First Fit of the "Gold Fever." [Communicatbd, by an Ex Gold Digger.] No. V. a Narrotv Escape
AFTER an excellent night's accommodation we stood in the verandah, and saw the bright rays of the newly-risen Sun gild the fantastic "cliffs of grey granite across the…
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I DID not write last week as there was nothing novel to communicate, mining operations and other matters following their usual course…
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ON Sunday evening last a melancholy occurrence took place on the River. A man of colour, named Simmons, from Philadelphia, had gone down an old shaft, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Sketches. My First Fit of the "Gold Fever." [Communicated, by an Ex Gold Digger.] No. Vi. Generalities
AT break of day the creek beneath us was swarming with men, busy as bees. From our elevated perch, snugly squatted around a fire with our boot-toes singing between a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rough Sketches. My First Fit of the "Gold Fever." [Communicated, by an Ex Gold Digger.] No. Vii. Arrival of the Gold Police
TOWARDS evening the word passed that the police had arrived, and camped up Eau-deCologne Gully. Everyday constables would have been welcomed; but, as " bees biz oot…
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To show the profit and loss account of the Rocky River diggings lately, I cannot do better than quote the last escort returns— namely, 750 ozs. a week. Reckoning as…
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SEVERAL times within the last twelve months there have been migrations from our diggings, and at such times we were assured that the Rocky was certainly done…
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