Researches in the Southern Gold Fields of New South WalesReading and Wellbank, 1860 - 305 strán (strany) |
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Researches in the Southern Gold Fields of New South Wales William Branwhite Clarke Úplné zobrazenie - 1860 |
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abundance Adelong alluvial Alps appear Araluen auriferous Australia basalt basin beds Bendoc Carboniferous character coast Colony conglomerate Coodradigbee Cooma copper Creek crystals Deleget deposits detritus diggers discovery district Dividing Range drift dykes elevation epidote Eucumbene existence feet felspar ferruginous formation fossils fragments geological Gold Fields grains granite granitic rocks grey grits Hargraves head Hill hornblendic igneous iron Jejedzeric junction Kosciusco Lake latter limestone localities Maneero masses mentioned metal mica miles mineral Mitta Mitta Moamba Mount mountains Muniong Murchison Murrumbidgee neighbourhood obtained occur Omeo particles pass Plain porphyry portion present probably produced quartz quartz rock quartz veins quartziferous quartzite Reef region remarkable Report Roderick Murchison sandstone schistose schists Shoalhaven side Silurian similar Sir Roderick slate snow Snowy River South Wales specimen summit surface swamp Sydney syenite tion transmuted trap trappean traversed Tumut valley vicinity Victoria W. B. Clarke Yalwal Yass
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Strana 297 - Bcrrima, produced to the Colonial Secretary a lump of gold embedded in quartz, which he said he had picked up at a certain place which he offered to make known to the Government upon being previously rewarded for the intelligence by the payment to him of a large sum.
Strana 57 - The rock, when exposed, appears to be primitive granite, inclining to gneiss, with a portion of hornblende and frequently mica. The soil is red and remarkably ferruginous, in many places apparently of great depth. The gold lies, for the most part, in a stratum of rounded pebbles and gravel called cascalhao, immediately incumbent on the solid rock.
Strana 119 - They are more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold ; sweeter, also, than honey, and the honey-comb.
Strana 283 - Knightii, and many shells and corals, on the flanks of the dividing range of New South Wales. This discovery is important, for it completes the resemblance of the Australian Cordillera (along which Devonian and Carboniferous fossils had been found) with the Ural Mountains ; the two chains being thus shown to be zoologically, as well as lithologically, similar, and both to...
Strana 297 - ... of a large sum. The obvious reply to this offer was that the Government could enter into no blind bargain on such a subject ; but that if Mr. Smith thought proper to trust to the liberality of the Government, he might rely upon being rewarded in proportion to the value of the alleged discovery, when that was ascertained. Mr. Smith refused to accede to this proposal, and there the matter rested.
Strana 64 - As this storm was of a very unusual character as to its violence, it deserves more especial mention. The day had been very hot, and, as I had been on horseback since 7 am I was anxious to come to an early camp. But as we were approaching the Berudba River, which one of my attendants spoke of as being very difficult to cross in time of flood, and as we saw ahead of us a very threatening sky, as if a furious tempest was brewing to the south-westward, I was induced to go forwards, in the hope of crossing...
Strana 53 - I/fountains, there are tractt whertin gold is diffused in small and almost invisible particles through the body of certain granitic rocks, especially those (according to Mr Clarke) which are hornblendic or syenitic.
Strana 294 - Having in the year 1844 recently returned from the auriferous Ural mountains, I had the advantage of examining the numerous specimens collected by my friend Count Strzelecki along the eastern chain of Australia. Seeing the great similarity of the rocks of those two distant countries I could have little difficulty in drawing a parallel between them ; in doing which 1 was naturally struck by the circumstance that no gold had yet been found in the Australian range, which I termed in anticipation the...
Strana 120 - ... furious tempest came on and we were deluged with rain. We were up and on our way at 5 am and wending through dense scrub as we could; we travelled as on...
Strana 289 - ... serious consequences, which, considering the condition and population of the colony, were to be apprehended." While this policy in a measure retarded development, it did not have the overshadowing importance in this respect that is often attributed to it. In Western Australia, where there was no such attempt at suppression, there was a similar slow development, and the principal cause seems to have been the...