The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... GOLD DISCOVERIES , 1850-1860 THE mineralogical Columbus has already taken a mythical shape , sometimes assuming , according to the varieties of the legend , the form of a German Count , sometimes of an English Knight , sometimes of a ...
... GOLD DISCOVERIES , 1850-1860 THE mineralogical Columbus has already taken a mythical shape , sometimes assuming , according to the varieties of the legend , the form of a German Count , sometimes of an English Knight , sometimes of a ...
Page 244
... gold would be very embar- rassing to a wool - growing country , and the matter was dropped . Obviously , neither the English nor the colonial administrators con- templated the prospect of gold in Australia without alarm . But this ...
... gold would be very embar- rassing to a wool - growing country , and the matter was dropped . Obviously , neither the English nor the colonial administrators con- templated the prospect of gold in Australia without alarm . But this ...
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... gold were taken away in the pockets of emigrants , Gold yield1 New South Wales Population2 of Victorian goldfields 35,000 Year £ Victoria £ 1852 2,660,946 16,776,250 1853 1,781,172 12,206,851 73,000 1854 773,209 8,661,161 100,000 1855 ...
... gold were taken away in the pockets of emigrants , Gold yield1 New South Wales Population2 of Victorian goldfields 35,000 Year £ Victoria £ 1852 2,660,946 16,776,250 1853 1,781,172 12,206,851 73,000 1854 773,209 8,661,161 100,000 1855 ...
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