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PREFACE.
The writer
of the following pages had no idea whatÂever that, upon his return from
a recent official visit to the goldfields, he would he called upon to
write a book. Possibly, had he anticipated such a task, this volume
would have been somewhat different. The information afforded' might
have been more general, and touched the interests, operations, and
prospects of other companies besides those upon which he had been
instructed to report.
This
little volume is, therefore, no more than a slight sketch of his own
personal experiences. EnÂlivened with engravings from drawings made
upon the spot, its object is to familiarize the English reader with the
country in which such great results will, in all probability, soon be
achieved. It will, perhaps, be interesting, hereafter, as a record of
what the district
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