William Gardner Volume 1: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of NSW, 1854

Contents of Map Case

Three maps at eight miles to an inch;

Map

Map of New South Wales & Victoria exhibiting the Counties, Townships, and principal lines of Road in New South Wales by William Gardner

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Index to First Volume

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Index to Second Volume

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Abstract of Index to Second Volume

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Map

Map of New South Wales, Victoria, North, South, and Central Australia exhibiting the Counties in New South Wales by William Gardner

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Map of Australia

Exhibiting the Probable Extent of the Great Australian Desert and Termination of that Great Desert in the North;

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Map [Desert];

Occupation of the Northern Districts

Passage Across the Bulga Range of Mountains; Occupation of Hunter River District; Seasons in Hunter River District;

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Hunter Valley, Sheep, William River, Patterson River, 1820, Cattle, Bulga Range, Patricks Plains, Windsor, Richmond, Drought, 1840, 1836, Crops, New England, Liverpool Range;

District of Liverpool Plains

Occupation by Settlers, 1826; Country of Dead Trees on Liverpool Plains; Great Flood on the Namoi River from 13th till 21st January 1840, Attended with Loss of Life;

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Settlers, 1826, Mr Baldwin, Liverpool Range, Murrurundi, Liverpool Plains, Drought, Namoi, Environment, 1839, Carobobella, Caurindi, Loders Station, Barraba, Tulcuwind[?], Keepit, Tarpaulin Creek, Flood, Namoi River, 1840, Mr Lowe, Tibereena Station, Terryarro Station, Aboriginal Australians, Hunter River, 1820, 1826, 1832, 1840, 1851, 1857;

Liverpool Plains District

Stations on the Gwyder River Cattle from Gwyder Ranges; Cattle Stations on the Sovereign River Cattle from that River; Separation of Gwyder from Liverpool Plains District 1847; Bundarra & Gwyder Rivers New England Ranges Terminate;

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Settlers, Gwyder Ranges, Horton River, Gwyder River, Cattle, Mr Cunningham, New England, Sovereign River, Pasture, Stockmen, Aboriginal Australians, Liverpool Plains District, 1847, Warielda, Reedy Creek, MrBligh, Commissioner, Gwyder District, Bundarra River, Kentucky Station, Mr Atkinson, Keri [or Gireye] Station, Mr Macpherson, Big River, Trigamon Station, Macintyre River, Mr Simpson;

Liverpool Plains District

Grasses Their Qualities and Management; Newspaper [Sydney Atlas 13th November 1847];

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Sydney Atlas, 1847, Grasses, Environment, Aboriginal Australians, Darling Downs, Trifolium repens, Festuca ovina, Native Grasses, Duke of Bedford, Mr Sinclair, Trifolium pratense, Medicago sativa, Heydsarum onobrychis, Trifolium macrorhinum;

Liverpool Plains District

Goolah Grass Seed , Panicum Loevinode Used by the Aborigines as Food; Fish in the Rivers; The Culgoi;

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Anthesterum australis [or Barley Grass], Indigenous Food, Indigenous Word, Barwan River, Savannahs, Coolies, India, Sawa Chena, Fish Traps, Fish, Indigenous Bird;

Liverpool Plains District

Watering Places on the Gwyder or Big River Road; Specimens of Surface Copper Ore; The Budgerry Gaan Paroquet;

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Gwyder river, Big River, Woolham Hall, Attungah, Peel River, Mr Jenkins, Breewan Station, Browns Springs, Namoi River, Manilla [or Maniella] River, Borro Gap, Tarpaulin Creek, Durro Station, Mr Upton, Mr Cabrodi, Halls Station, Bingera, Warielda, Myall Creek [or Tainoga] Station, Mr Dangar, Minerals, Warlands Ranges, Liverpool Range, Carobobella Mountain, Mooki River, Native Birds, Grasses, Seeds;

Notes Regarding the Western Waters

American or Castlereigh River; Mooki River; Namoi River; Bundarra River;

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List [Rivers], Warrenbungle Range, Liverpool Range, Wambullong Creek, Eramagullia [Station?], Gulgagambin [Station?], Connambo Creek, Mr Walker, Merry Merry Creek, Bullaroara [Station?], Biamba [Station?], Mr Hall, Mr Lawson, Mr McCrae, Molemnrd [Station?], Angus, Mr Brown, Gunnedah Station, Mr Johnstone, Roads, Namoi River, Gwyder River, Macintyre River, Malurundi [or Macdonald] River, Bendemere, Ureandumbi Ranges, Manilla [or Maniella] River, Bundarra [or Pundarra] River, Kentucky, Keri Station, Mr Macpherson;

Notes Regarding the Western Waters

The Severn River; The Sovereign River; Mooni River; Condamine River; Balone River; Maranoa River;

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Benlomond Mountain, Sheep, Frazers Creek, Egerton [Station?], Severn river, Innar Station, Trigamon Station, Tenterfield, Mole River, Pikes Creek, Mengola [Station], Cattle, Sovereign River, Macintyre River, Boonal Station, Mr Dight, Balonne River, Barwan River, Burren Burren Station, Mr Eckford, Road, St Georges Bridge, Maranoa River, Lower Condamine River, Surat [Place?], Mount Lindsay, Northern Range, Explorers, 1846, Pasture;

District of New England

[Description];

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Walka Station, Urandumbee [Mountain?], Mr Semple, 1832, Niramin [or Ellerston Station?], Walcha, Macleay River, Mr Cory, Moonbi Mountains [Moongap], Road, Corys Night Cap, Salisbury Station, Mr Marsh, Mr McKenzie, Mr Danger, Mr Carlisle, Mr Maister, Gostwyck Station, Carlisle Gully [Station?], Kentucky Station, 1835, Mr Macdougall, Mr Campbell, Malurundi [or Macdonald] River, Namoi River, Explorers, Mr Dumaresq, Tilbuster Station, Guira River, Mr Ducatt, Guira [Guyra] Station, Cattle, Armadale [Armidale], Mr Macintyre, Wolomumbi, Mr Hall, Mr Thacker, Aberfoyle Station, Balblair Station, Macmillan [Station?], Falconer Plains, Sugar Loaf River,Chandlers Peak, Aboriginal Australians;

District of New England

Beardy Plains, Byron Plains, & the Bundarra Country; Beardy Plains; Occupation of Beardy Plains, Part of New England, Byron Plains;

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Mr Duval, Mr Chandler, Mr Dumaresq, Mr McIntyre, Tilbuster,Ruengurer [or Guyra] Station, Explorers, Cattle, Sheep, Environment, Table [Dates of Occupation of Stations];

District of New England

Occupation of the Lower & Upper Wards of New England;

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Walcha, Armadale [Armidale], 1832, 1835, Tenterfield, Bundarra, Byron Plains, 1835, 1840, Darling District, 1840, Burnett District, Wide Bay District, Sheep, 1855, Pasture, Darling Downs, Cattle, 1850, Horses, Maryborough, Hunter River District, Environment, Stockmen, Wool;

District of New England

Crops of Wheat, Maize, Barley, Potatoes, etc [?] in Elevated Situations; Polling Places in New England & Macleay Districts;

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Crops, New England, Weather, Peel River, Tamworth, Moongap [or Moombi] Ranges, Nambucka [or Sea Coast] Range, Grasses, England, Settlers, Cattle, Sheep, Pacific Ocean, Native Plants, Benlomond, Falls, Moreton Bay, Scotland, Falconer Station, Oban Station, List [Polling Places in New England & Macleay];

District of New England

Breeding and Fattening Country Cattle Slaughtered by the Blacks; The Cockatoo;

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New England, Beardy Plains, Byron Plains, Bundarra, Macintyre River, Cattle, Aboriginal Australians, Settlers, Stockmen, Firearms, Falls, Native Birds, Poisons, Environment;

District of New England

Occupying Country Unfit for Sheep Farming;

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Northern Districts, Sheep, Box Trees, Apple [Box?] Tree, Ridges, Plains, Stockmen, New England, Wool, Grass, Environment, Weather, Crops, Illness, Pasture, Scotland, Stock Diseases, Ranges, Armadale [Armidale], Benlomond Mountain, Tenterfield, Maryland, Darling Downs, Roseinthal [Station?], Byron Plains, Macintyre River, Great Northern Dividing Range, Cattle, Clarence District, Moreton [District?], Servants [Assigned?], 1849, Burnett District, Elevation;

District of New England

Sale of Stations and Stock in the Northern Districts 1850 [& 1851];

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Burgoora Station, Ballone River, Maranoa District, Cattle, St Georges Bridge, Dundee Station, Sheep, Armadale [Armidale], Horses, Wool, Aberfoil Station, Beardy Plains, New England, Balblair Station, 1851, Falconer Station, Road, Darling Downs;

District of New England

Sale of Tenterden Station, March 1854; From Mr Morts Produce Circular - 19 November 1852. Stock & Stations;

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Tenterdon Station, New England, Armadale [Armidale], Ollera Station, Sydney, 1843, 1850, 1851, 1854, Gold, Cattle, Port Phillip, Sheep, Population;

District of New England

New System of Renting Sheep; Cattle Taken on Keep From the Proprietors on Terms 1852;

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1850, 1851, sheep, New England, Gwyder District, Wool, Sydney, Salt Brush, Salt, Cattle, 1852;

District of New England

Native Fruit, and Bulbus Roots Found in the Bush in the District of New England;

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Fruit, Gooseberry, Vine, Byron Plains, Lambean, Embongattas, Peipian, Paera, Shrub, Eelwarra [or Native Raspberry], Scotland, Oparra [or Native Cherry], Trees, England, Banksia, Ridges, Aboriginal Australians, Native Animals [Bees], Timber, Native Plants, Introduced Animals [Bees];Opia [Yam], [Randa?], [Ra]mbanga [or Breechen], Swamps, [El]onga [or Elnonga], Horses, Cattle, Indigenous Language;

District of New England

Drawing - Embianna Fruit of the Banksia Shrub;

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Native Plant;

District of New England

Drawing - Stonehenge in the County of Gresham District of New England; [Description];

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Stonehenge Station, Mr Boyd, Armadale [Armidale], Road, Glen Innes, Dundee, Tenterfield, Draton, Brisbane, Cattle;

District of New England

Cavalry Horses for India How are They to be Supplied; To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald; [1857];

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Bengal Army, Madras, Bombay, Government, Lords, Ministers, Empire, India, War, Crimea, Infantry, Cavalry, Horses, Artillery, Firearms, Earl of Ellenborough, 1857, Government Gazette, Dragoon Guards, New South Wales, Victoria, Van Diemans Land, East India Government, Colonists, Indian Army, Gold, Overlanders, Sheep, Cattle, Sydney, Mutiny, 'Native Powers', 'Native Cavalry', British Cavalry, Squatters, Farmers, Station, Magistrates, Steamer, Dealers, British Subjects, Christian Men, Murder, Mr Lang, Woolloomooloo; [Page 106 very difficult to read.]

Map of Country from Stoney to Armadale [Armidale] in New England

Map exhibiting the Counties, Townships, lines of Road from Sydney to Armadale [Armidale] in New England, with the position of the Stations occupied by Settlers beyond the Boundary of Location in New South Wales by William Gardner

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District of New England

Marble, Ironstone, Freestone, Limestone, Granite; Timber of New England; Burr Stone; The Bustard or Turkey;

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Minerals, Malurundi [or Macdonald] River, Namoi River, Marble Mountains, Mr Fleming, Orrabar[?] Station, Big River Road, Bureindi, Manilla River, Pikes Creek, Sovereign River, Cowall [Station?], New England, Wellington Vale [Station?], Innar [or Eenna Station], Macintyre River, Ranges, Moonbi Mountains, Timber, Peppermint Tree, Gum Tree, Ironbark Tree, Byron Plains, Bundarra, Box Tree, Apple Tree, White Mahogany Tree, Dog Wood Trees, Pine Trees [Calitris], France, Burr Stone, Wheat, Flour, Scotland, Aboriginal Australians, Native Birds;

District of New England

Manna Found in New England Byron Plains & Bundarra; Fish Found in the Bundarra & Macintyre Rivers; Fullers Earth;

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Weather, Trees, New England, Gum Trees, Bundarra, Byron Plains, Northern Districts, Counties, Native Insect, Native Fish, Rock Cod, Mole River, Sovereign River, Deepwater, Aboriginal Australians, Minerals, Spirits, Wool, Rockvale, Wolamumbi River;

District of New England

Drawing - View of Oban Station in the County of Gresham District of New England; [Description]

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Ann River, Clarence River, Armadale [Armidale], Crops, Grafton, Sydney, Maitland, Gold, Aboriginal Australians;

District of New England

Prices of Wheat, Flour etc, in New England & Sydney Before & After the Gold Discovery; Sydney Prices September 1849;

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New England District, Sheep, Sydney, Maitland, Hunter River District, 1836 to 1839, Settlers, Crops, 1838, Beardy Plains, 1843, Liverpool Plains, 1844 to 1849, 1849, 1851, 1855, 1844, Armadale [Armidale], Taal & Zebu, Brazil, Launceston, Port Fairy, Cattle;

District of New England

Drawing - Head Station at Mount Mitchell County of Gresham; [Description]

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Mr Barker, Sarah River, Clarence River, Sydney, Armidale, Falconer Station, Oban Station, Yarrow Creek Station, Glen Innes, Dundee Station, Tenterfield, Grafton, Guy Faulks, Paddys Land, Broadmeadow, Benlomond, Elevation, Pacific Ocean, Llangoden[?], Crops, Aboriginal Australians;

District of New England

Sale of Stations; Purchasing Sheep for Stock or Store;

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Northern Districts, Rangers Hill Station, 1855, New England, Sheep, Goubangie Station, Darling District, Arcelang Station, Bligh District, Cattle, Macintyre River,

District of New England

Sale of Stock 1851 in New England; Improving the Breed of Sheep;

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Sheep, 1851, Armadale [Armidale], Wool, New England, Cattle, 1852, Boiling Down, Ranges, Stock Diseases, London, Weather, Sheep Breeds;

District of New England

Drawing - Utiwal[?]; Process of Sheep Washing by the Water Spout;

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Utiwal Station, Sheep Washing, Wool, Sheep;

District of New England

Limestone & Gold Discovered Near Wellingrove; Sheep Purchased in New England April 1856;

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Minerals, New England District, Chappel, Wellingrove Station [Town?], Gold, Sheep, 1856;

District of New England

Drawing - Calumban; Lambing Down Station at Balaclava on the Rockvale Run County of Sandon;

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Outstation, Rockvale Station, County of Sandon, Grass, Aboriginal Australians, 1847, Stockmen, Sheep;

District of New England

Drawing - Sheep Shearing; [Description]

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Weather, Shearers, Sheep, Shearing Shade [or Shed], Wool, Sheep Washing;

District of New England

Postmans Line from Armadale [Armidale] to Grafton; From Armadale [Armidale] to Grafton by Rockvale; Armadale [Armidale] to Port McQuarie; Maitland to Armadale [Armidale];

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Table [Distances Between Towns];

Clarence District

From Sydney to Grafton by Land via Armadale [Armidale]; Another Line; From Grafton to Byron Plains by Tenterfield; New Line From Grafton to Glen Innes in Beardy Plains; Old Line of Road From Grafton to Tenterfield;

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Table [Distances Between Towns];

Clarence District

The Bread Fruit Tree; The Native Apple; The Native Grape; Woods Fit for Veneering; Ash Tree;

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Fruit, Native Plant, Macleay River, Tweed River, Nambuckra [or Nambucca] District, Native Fish, Aboriginal Australians, Shrubs, Bunyeh Bunyeh Tree, Vine, Timber, Scrub;

Clarence District

Shipping Trade of Grafton; The Trade of Grafton with New England; Ration Allowed to Shepherds Stockman, & Watchmen Form of Agreement;

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Shipping, Grafton, New England, Steamer, Sydney, England, Gold, Victoria, Clarence River, Wool, Western Districts, Armadale [Armidale], Tenterfield, Maitland, Hunter River, Stockmen, Wages & Conditions;

[District of New England]

Drawing - Inverell Byron Plains District of New England County of Gouch; [Description]

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Inverell Station, Macintyre River, Swan Brook, 1838, Mr Campbell, Native Birds, Sovereign [or Dumaresq] River, Byron Plains, Aboriginal Australians, Newstead Station, Bacalla Station, Bannockburn Station, Walingurar Station, Native Fish, Sydney, Road, Bendemere, Clerkness, Armadale [Armidale], Moredun Station, Paradise Creek, Nullamana Station, Pindari Station, Wellingrove Station;

[District of New England]

Drawing - Saumarez County of Sandon; [Description]

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Saumarez Station, 1835, Macleay River, Pasture, Sheep, Cattle, Sydney, Maitland, Armadale [Armidale], Gold, Rocky River, 1852, Ovens River, Aboriginal Australians, Elevation, Pacific Ocean, 1856, Victoria, Ridges;

District of New England

Improving the Breed of Sheep. Imported Rams & Ewes;

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Australia, Colonists, Wool, Pasture, Weather, Sheep Breeds, New South Wales, Victoria, 1831, Sheep Prices, New England, 1848;

[District of New England]

Drawing - Sugar Loaf Station County of Sandon New England New South Wales;

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[Drawing only];

[District of New England]

Drawing - In County of Gouch Glen Innes 1850; [Description]

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Glen Innes, 1850, Severn River, Macintyre River, Beardy Plains, Benlomond, Reserve, Allotments, 1854, Elevation, Pacific Ocean, Armadale [Armidale], Falconer Station, Stonehenge Station, List [Distances Between Stations/Towns], Dundee Station, Bolivia Station, Tenterfield, Mail, Wellingrove, Sheep, Crops, Minerals, Rangers Valley Station, Wellington Vale Station, Strathbogie Station;

Clarence District

Country Adapted for Cattle Grazing; The Mahogany Tree for Railways, Waterworks etc; The Native Pine Apple; Coal and Limestone;

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Northern Districts, Cattle, Ranges, Gwyder District, Maranoa District, Lower Condamine District, Fitzroy Downs District, Boiling Down, Trees, Timber, Macquarie County, Western Australia, 1854, South Australia, Adelaide, East India, Native Insect, Environment, Cedar Scrub, West Indies, Minerals, Nimbadi[?], Clouds Creek;

District of New England

Agricultural & Stock Returns New England 1851; Number of Sheep at Outstations;

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List[Crop Prices (Bushels/Acre)], List [Sheep,Cattle & Horse Numbers (New England)], Stockholders, New England District, Outstation, Sheep, Stockmen;

District of Darling

Date of Occupation May 1840;

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Darling Downs, Explorers, Sheep, Cattle, Mr Leslie, 1840, Byron Plains, Head Station, Canning Downs, Condamine River, Mr Cunningham, Road, Ballone River, Moreton District, Tenterfield, Aboriginal Australians, Stockmen, Settlers;

Darling District

Distance From Sydney to Drayton; Distance From Drayton to Brisbane; Fish Found in Condamine River; Coal Found in this District; Thermometer in the Shade in Sydney. 3rd February 1855- From the Herald;

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List [Distances From Sydney to Brisbane], Native Fish, Condamine River, Creeks, Stockmen, Salt, Minerals, Clifton Plains, Canning Downs, Darling Downs, Weather, Sydney;

Darling District

Population of the Townships in the Line to the Northern Districts & Supposed Population in the Townships in the Districts; Date of Establishment of Post Offices;

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Table [Population], Drayton, Darling Downs, Gayndah, Burnett River, 1838, Muswell Brook, Hunter River, Scone, 1840, Mail, Murrurundi, Page River, Liverpool Range, Tamworth, Peel River, 1842, Post Office, Armadale [Armidale], New England, Port Macquarie, 1844, Maitland, 1846, Settlers, Beardy Plains, Wellingrove, 1847, Tenterfield, Brisbane, Ipswich, Horses, 1850, Maryborough, Sydney, 1854, Gladstone, Port Curtis;

Darling District

Lands in the Northern Districts Most Suitable for Sheep Farming; Survey of Runs;

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Trees, Ridges, Sheep, Plains, Minerals, Shrubs, Environment, 1849, Newspaper, Squatter, Government, Surveying, Leases, Drought;

Moreton District

Occupation by Settlers. Withdrawal of the Prisoners; Sheep Runs in This District; Regarding the Occupation of Fleece Country in the Northern Districts;

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1826-1840, Jail, Prisoners, Settlers, 1840, Gap, Ranges, Darling Downs, Explorers, Mr Cunningham, Mr Elliott, Mr Hodgson, Flagstone, License, Sheep, Cattle, Stations, Burnett District, Dawson River, Leichhardt District, Liverpool Range, Farmer, Northern Districts, Darling River, Macintyre River, New England;

Moreton District

The Bunyeh Mountains Fruit of the Bunyeh Tree [Continued]; Land Carriage to Sheep Farmers an Object in Occupying New Country, Discovery of Western Country in 1846;

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Servants, Shrub, Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Words, Native Animals, Glass House Mountains, Brisbane, Environment, Fruit, Mr Mitchell, Explorers, Sheep, Cattle, Victoria River, Ranges;

[Moreton District]

The Bread Fruit Tree of the Society Islands;

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Drawing [Bread Fruit Tree], Otatheite Island, Fruit, Tree, Mr Cook, 1768, Mr Dampier, 1688, Society Island, Environment, Van Diemens Land, 1789, Mr Bligh, 1792, West Indies, Sandwich Islands;

Moreton District

Sowing Grass Seed on Runs; Return of Live Stock in the Northern Districts on 1st January 1850;

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Grass, Environment, Seeds, New England District, Ranges, Weather, Settlers, Table [Stock Numbers in Northern Districts];

Moreton District

Pearl Fishery in the Island of Ceylon [Continued];

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Shipping, Oysters, Pearls, Native Fish,

Moreton District

Sites for New Villages 1855; Glasshouse Mountains; Distance from Brisbane to Binbian on Lower Darling River; Polling Places in Moreton Wide Bay, Burnet & Maranoa;

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Moreton District, County of Churchill, Gatton, Lockyers Creek, Alfred, Owens Inn, Bremer River, Mountains, Elevation, Mr Cook, Table [Distances Between Towns/Stations], List [Polling Places];

Moreton District

Monument to La Perouse at Botany Bay in New South Wales [Description Continued]; Steam to Sydney From Moreton Bay; Freight From Moreton Bay;

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Mr La Perouse, Mr Dillon, East India Company, Shipping, Manicolo Islands, Steamers, Wool, Fares, Prices, Australasian Steam Navigation Company, 1855, Freight, Moreton Bay, Sydney;

Gwyder District

Gold Field Discovered in this District in August 1851; Increase of Flocks in the Northern Interior Large Runs for Sheep;

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Gold, Bingera Station, Caurangoura Creek, Gwyder Ranges, Piedmont[?], Minerals, Rocky River, New England, Hanging Rock, Liverpool Plains District, Weather, Walcha, Armadale [Armidale], 1832, 1835, Tenterfield, Bundarra , Byron Plains, 1840, Darling Downs, Burnett District, Leichhardt District, Fitzroy District, Port Curtis District, Sheep, Stock Diseases;

Gwyder District

Sheep Let by the Proprietors on Terms; New System of Renting Sheep; [Similar to Pages 90/89]

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Stockholders, Sheep, 1837, 1840, Wool, Stations, 1848, Sheep Breeds, 1839, Prices, 1843, 1847, Sydney, Government, 1849, Stock Diseases;

Gwyder District

Breeding and Fattening Stations for Cattle, Fattening Runs Overstocked, Removal of Stock from the Fattening Runs to New Country, and of Fat Cattle to the Boiling Down Establishments, From the Rivers Mooki, Namoi and Gwyder;

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Northern Districts, Mountain District, Cattle, Improvements, Stockmen, Stations, Weather, Overstocking, Drought, Boiling Down, 1850, Government, Environment, Sheep, Mooki River, Namoi River, Gwyder River, Stockholders, Liverpool Range, Tallow, Prices;

Gwyder District

Return of Live Stock in the Colony of New South Wales Including the District of Port Phillip on the 31st December in Each Year from 1843 to 1850 Inclusive; Live Stock in the Northern Districts During the Years 1844 & 1847;

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Table [Livestock Numbers for New South Wales and Port Phillip], Table [Livestock Numbers for Northern Districts];

Gwyder District

Import of Live Stock [N.S.W. & Port Phillip, 1841-1850]; Export of Live Stock [N.S.W. & Port Phillip, 1843-1850];

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Table [Livestock Imports], Table [Livestock Exports];

Gwyder District

Sheep First Sent to Victoria from VanDiemens Land & New South Wales; Weight Allowed to the Bushel of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats etc; Tare Allowed on Bags & Bales of Wool; Yield of Flour from a Bushel of Wheat;

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Sheep, Port Phillip District, Victoria, Van Diemans Land, 1834, 1835, New South Wales, 1836, List [Weight/Bushel-Crops], List [Tare Weight on Bags/Bales], List [Flour/Bushel of Wheat];

Gwyder District

Tables of Distances; From Sydney to Warielda & Bingera in Gwyder District & to Calandoon & Drayton; From Sydney to St Georges Bridge & Surat by Warielda;

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Table [Distances from Sydney to Gwyder District];

Maranoa District

[Description]; Indiginous [Indigenous] Products of Maranoa District;

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Liverpool Plains, 1847, 1848, Commissioner, Surat, Lower Condamine River, Stations, Mooni River, Barwan River, Calandoon Waters, Balonne River, Maranoa River, Cogoon River, Aboriginal Australians, Cattle, Sheep, Settlers, Stockmen, Brush, Herbage, Grass, Farmer, Native Fish, Native Birds, Bulbs, Fruit, Rivers;

Maranoa District

Drawing - Sarsaparilla Plant [Description];

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Native Plants, Vine, Environment, America, Jesuits, Medical Plant, Beer, Aboriginal Australians, New England, Horses, Cattle, Sheep;

District of Fitz Roy

[Description]

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Downs, Mr Mitchell, 1846, Governor General, Grafton Range, Coordinates, Settlers, Fitz Roy Downs, Aboriginal Australians, 'Native Police', Mooki River, Namoi River, Gwyder River, Overstocking, Lower Condamine River, Darling District, Moreton District, Burnett District, Wide Bay District;

District of Fitz Roy

Fish Found in the Rivers; Remarkable Stone Found in this District; March & April Rainy Months in New South Wales;

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Native Fish, Rivers, Settlers, Environment, Minerals, Sydney, Weather, Almanac, 1828, Hawkesbury River, 1779, 1800, 1801, 1806, Flood, Crops, Prices;

Burnett & Wide Bay District

[Description.];

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1854, Commissioner, Halloran, Maryborough, Minerals, Gayndah, Burnett River, Harvies Bay, Shipping, Drayton, Roads, Darling Downs, Gladstone, Port Curtis, Brisbane, Post Office, Wide Bay, Cattle, Sheep, Singapore, Sydney, Cape York;

Burnett & Wide Bay District

Wages of Shepherds - Within the Boundaries & in the Interior Districts During the Year 1847; Men Hired in New England During 1849; Return of Sheep, Cattle, and Horses in Burnett & Wide Bay for 1850 & 1851;

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Stockmen, New England, Wages & Conditions, Table;

Burnett & Wide Bay District

Number of Shepherds Watchmen & Others Required for 12 or 13,ooo Sheep; Number of Bales of Wool from 13,000 Sheep Averaging 2 1/2 Pounds Each;

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Sheep, Stockmen, Darling Downs, Scrub, Wide Bay, Burnett District, Wages & Conditions;

Burnett & Wide Bay District

Mr Morts Circular 1st November 1849; Stock & Stations; Mr Morts Circular 1st November 1850; Wool in England 1850; Wool in England 1852;

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Wool, London, Cattle, Sheep, Stations, Prices;

Leichhardt District

Boundaries of the Pastoral District of Wide Bay & Burnett; Boundaries of the Pastoral District of Port Curtis;

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Maranoa District, Darling Downs, Burnett River, Dawson River, Glass House Mountains, Iemma [Station?], Brisbane River, Moreton District, Leichhardt District, Kolan River, Port Curtis District, Ranges, Fitzroy River, Herberts Creek, Broad Sound, Coast, Counties;

Crown Lands

From The Moreton Bay Courier 3rd March 1855;

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Crown Lands, Squatting, Darling Downs, License,Stations, Surveying, Creeks, Waterholes, Rivers, Reserves, Government, Headstation, Population, Settlers;

New South Wales Wool

Colonial Wool [Continued]; Australian & German Wool Shipped to England in 1840; Spanish Wool Shipped to England in 1840 & 1848; Import of Foreign & Australian Wool 1840 & 1848; Wool Exported from New South Wales in 1837, 1843 & 1845;

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Newspaper, 1850, Wool, 1820, 1807, Mr Macarthur, List [Australian Wool Imported into England 1807 to 1820], 1840, German ,1848, Australia, Spain, Table [Wool Exports];

New South Wales Wool

Quantity of Wool Shipped from Australia from 1834 to 1845 Including Showing the Increase in Each Year Upon the Year Preceeding; Export of Wool from Sydney Port Jackson 1844 to 1854;

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Wool, Australia, 1834-1845, Sydney, 1844-1854, Prices;

New South Wales Wool

Prices Obtained in Sydney for Wool & Tallow During the Months of January & July of Each Year from 1844 to 1850 as Compared With the Prices Realised in London for the Same Produce in July & January Following;

x106

241

Table [Wool & Tallow Prices 1844-1850], Wool, Tallow, Cattle, Sheep, Prices;

New South Wales Wool

Export of Wool; 1854. Direct Shipment of New South Wales Wool to France;

107

243

Table [Quantity and Value of Wool, Exported from the Colony of New South Wales (Including the District of Port Phillip) from the Year 1841 to 1850 Inclusive], Mr Desgrund, Mr Pere, Mr Fils, Government, Prices, Australia, Wool, France, Shipping, England;

The Breeding of Merino Sheep

Imperial Establishment at Rambouillet;

x109 to111x

245 to247

Breeds, 1786, King of Spain, King of France, France, Royal Castle of Rambouillet, Paris, List [Measurements of Merino Bucks (in Inches)], Sheep, 1854, Austria, Prices, America, Shearing, Wool, Weather, Diseases, Crops;

Direct Shipment of Wools to France

Direct Shipment of Wools to France Sydney March 23rd 1855; Classification of Wool - Wool and How to Shear it October 22nd 1853;

113x to 114x

249 to 250

France, Shipping, "Liam", Produce, Wool, Mr Noussard[?], Colonists, 1851, London, "La Juste", "La Mathilde", Mr Desgrund, Mr Pere, Mr Fils, "La Brune", Bowen, Wages & Conditions, Prices, Shearing, England, Shearers;

[Wool]

Paris Wool Sales [31st March 1855];

115x

251

Wool, Mr Éclair, Prices, List [Wool Prices], London, England;

Runs Overstocked During Dry and Parched Seasons

[Heading only];

109

255

Runs Overstocked During Dry and Parched Seasons

District of New England;District of Clarence; District of Moreton; District of Darling; District of Gwyder; District of Burnett & Wide Bay; General Size of the Runs in the Northern Interior;

112

258

New England, Walcha, 1832, Moonbi Mountains, Mr Corie [Cory?], 1833, Road, Liverpool Plains, Settlers, 1839, Timber Cutters, Macleay River, Nambuckra River [Nambucca], Bellejum [Bellingen] River, Clarence River, Richmond River, Tweed River, Sydney, 1826, Jail, 1840, 1842 & 1843, Aboriginal Australians, Sheep, Cattle, Stations, Diseases;

Runs Overstocked During Dry and Parched Seasons

Districts of Bligh and Wellington; Cattle; Gwyder District;

114

260

Liverpool Plains, Drought, Flood, Stockholders, Herbage, Grass, Shrub, Rivers, Improvement, Environment, 1850, Sheep, Cattle, Sydney, Dairy, 1847, Stations, Ranges, Gwyder, New England, Overstocking, Maranoa District;

Runs Overstocked During Dry and Parched Seasons

April 1851 The Murrumbidgie [Murrumbidgee] District (Continued); [Livestock Returns Table];

116

262

Drought, Cattle, Coast Ranges, Stations, Settlers, Climate, Sheep, Grass, Seeds, Overstocking, Pasture, Table [Livestock Numbers in New South Wales-1854];

Early Regulations Regarding the Occupation Beyond the Settled Districts

Licenses First Issued by Government to Settlers Beyond the Boundaries; Early Regulations;

117

265

License, Government, Settlers, Boundary Limits, 1836, Stations, Prices, Improvements, Sheep, Cattle, Horses, List [Example of Prices Charged for Sheep, Cattle, Horses on Stations];

Government License for a Station & Charge on Stock

Regarding the Rules of 2nd April 1844; Rules of 10th July;

118x-119x

267-268

Squatter, Prices, Crown Land, Stations, Districts, 1845, License, Sheep, Cattle, Australia, Commissioner, Horses, Government, New England, Walleworang, Soil, Environment, Police;

Government License for a Station & Charge on Stock

Order in Council 9th March 1847 (Continued); June 1st 1853;

120-121

270-271

Leases, Stations, Prices, Surveying, Rivers, Governor, Reserve, Railway, Magistrate, Improvements;

Government License for a Station & Charge on Stock

Questions Regarding the Properties and Value of a Run in the Interior for Purchase Either for Sheep or Cattle; For Sheep; For Cattle;

122

272

Sheep, Station, Cattle, Road, Aboriginal Australians;

[Drawing & Plan]

Drawing - View of High Street West Maitland; Plan of the Town of Muswell Brook on the Upper Hunter;

x125

275

[Drawing Only]; Plan [Muswell Brook Town];

Alphabetical List of the Settlers in the Districts of:

Notice to This Edition;

127

279

Settlers, Districts, Stations, Licenses, Town, Allotments, Counties;

Alphabetical List of the Settlers in the Districts of:

Moreton District;

143-169a

295-323

Names, Counties, Town, Indigenous Name, Freeholder, Householder, Sheep, Cattle, Occupation, Location;

Alphabetical List of the Settlers in the Districts of:

Liverpool Plains District;

181-194

337-350

Names, Counties, Town, Indigenous Name, Freeholder, Householder, Sheep, Cattle, Occupation, Location;

Alphabetical List of the Settlers in the Districts of:

Darling Downs & Lower Condamine;

207-219

363-375

Names, Counties, Town, Indigenous Name, Freeholder, Householder, Sheep, Cattle, Occupation, Location;

Alphabetical List of the Settlers in the Districts of:

Settlers on [Wide Bay] Burnett & Dawson Rivers;

225-230x

381-386

Names, Counties, Town, Indigenous Name, Freeholder, Householder, Sheep, Cattle, Occupation, Location;

[Maps]

Victoria - by William Gardner;

389-390

Map [Colony of Victoria Exhibiting the Counties and Principal Townships, Lines of Road etc];

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

[Heading only];

229

393

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

Steaming Down Process Commenced; Time Required to Steam Forty Oxen; Cattle Fit for Steaming or Boiling Down;

233

397

1843-1844, Steaming Down, 1845, Sydney Salting Company, Tallow, 1847,

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

Description of a Steaming Down Establishment in 1847; Situation of the Vats Steam Boiler and Chimney Stalk; Description of the Main Steam Pipe from the Boiler to the Vats;

235

399

Steaming Down, Slaughtering, Cattle, Vats, Boiler;

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

The Soup or Gelatine Cran; The Refining Pan; Proper Time Allowed to Refine The Tallow; Produce of One Hundred and Fifty Head Of Cattle Steamed Down;

237

401

Vats, Boiler, Tallow, Casks, Table [Produce of 150 Cattle Steamed Down], England;

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

The Soup and Boiled or Steamed Down Meat from the Vats; Sheep Fit for Boiling or Steaming Down; Time Required to Steam Down Sheep; Unfavorable Years for Boiling or Steaming Down;

239

403

Boiling Down, Vats, Rivers, Environment, Tallow, Sheep, Grass, Water, Cattle, 1846, Road, Ranges;

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

First Account of Tallow as an Export From New South Wales; Return of Live Stock Sheep and Cattle Slaughtered & the Quantity of Tallow Produced From the Same for the Year 1846; Export of Tallow for the Years 1843, 1844, 1845 & 1846;

241

405

Tallow, 1843, Boiling Down, Prices, Table [Value of Tallow Produced From Quantities of Cattle and Sheep From Three Districts], Table [Tallow Production and Value 1843-1846];

Steaming and Boiling Down Establishments

Return of Live Stock Slaughtered the Quantity of Tallow Produced in New South Wales Including the District of Port Phillip; Export of Tallow;

243

407

Table [Tallow Produced From All Boiling Establishments 1844-1850], Table [Tallow Quantity and Value Exported 1843-1850];

Territorial Division of New South Wales

Northern Territorial Division;

247-248 [250?]

411-412

List [Northern Districts & Counties];

Map

New South Wales & Victoria - by William Gardner;

413

Map [New South Wales & Victoria Exhibiting the Counties Principal Townships and Lines of Road];

Miscellaneous Notes on the Districts

Acacia Pendula and Saloloe[?] Myall and Briccolow Shrub; Salt Brush;

253

417

Native Plant, Shrub, Timber, Aboriginal Australians, Cattle, Sheep, Herbage, Liverpool Plains, Gwyder, Maranoa, Environment, Namoi River, Macintyre River, Gwyder River, Drought, Brush, Fitzroy District, Maranoa District, Gwyder District, Salt, North Australia, Cannonba [Station?], Salting;

[Drawing]

Drawing - The Ornithorynchus Paradoxus or Platibus [Platypus];

254x

419

[Drawing only];

[Drawings]

Drawing - Corrobora [Corroboree] Dance by Australian Blacks; Drawing - Woman and Child; Drawing - Old Black Fellow;

425

[Drawings only];

Miscellaneous Notes

Regarding the Tribes of Blacks Inhabiting the Northern Districts;

257-258

429-430

Aboriginal Australians, New Holland, Districts, Indigenous Language, Native Animals, Native Fish, Coast, Native Fruit, Native Grass, Seed, Trees;

Miscellaneous Writings

Places Named by the Aborigines in the Northern, Southern and Western Districts;

x258

431

Table [Place Names-Burnett and Wide Bay District, Darling District, Gwyder District, District of New England, Liverpool Plains District, Moreton District, Clarence District];

Miscellaneous Notes

War, Hunting and Other Instruments Made Use of by the Aborigines of Australia; [Measurements];

x259

433

Drawings [Five Return Boomerangs, Four War Boomerangs, One Battle Axe, Two Boomerangs, Two War Clubs, Two Nulla Nullas]; Indigenous Words;

Miscellaneous Notes

War, Hunting and Other Instruments Made Use of by the Aborigines of Australia; [Measurements]; (Continued);

x263

437

Drawings [Six War Clubs, Four Carrying Baskets, One Stone Hammer or Hatchet, One Nulla Nulla, Two Firelighting Implements]; Indigenous Words;

Miscellaneous Notes

List of War Instruments etc Used by the Aborigines;

260

440

List [War Instruments, Hunting & Working Tools];

Miscellaneous Notes

The Boomerang; Brief Observations on the Boomerang Propeller by the Right Hon. The Earl of Dundonald;

xx263

443

Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Words, Colonists, 1853;

Miscellaneous Notes

Observations on Discharging War Boomerings [Boomerangs] From Artillery;

445-446

Drawings [Measurements and Description of the War Boomerang]; Aboriginal Australians, Timber, Crimean War;

Miscellaneous Notes

On Applying Either Electricity, or Galvanism, to Sheep Diseased With Shab, Vulgarly Called Scab, to Cure That Disease;

263-264-264[?]

449-451

Sheep, Diseases, Chemicals, Districts, Wool, Sydney, Stockholder, Stations, Native Insect;

Miscellaneous Notes

Goolah Grass (Panicum Loevinode) Native Grass Seed;

265

453

Mr Capper, West Maitland, Native Grass, Seeds, Barwan District, Overstocking, Aboriginal Australians, Native Birds;

Miscellaneous Notes

Frequent Change of Pasture Necessary For Sheep;

267x

455

Mr Blacklock, Sheep,Improvement, Pasture, Herbage, Mr Majendie, Diseases;

Miscellaneous Notes

Letting Out Ground For Cultivation During 1850;

267-268

457-458

Settlers, Enclosed Field, Imigrant, Stations, Farmer, Crops, Prices, Table [Value of Labour Attending the Produce of an Acre], Wages & Conditions, Leases, New England, Table [Calculation of Expense of Ploughing, Harrowing, Reaping, Thrashing, With a Dry Ration & Stacking or Housing for One Acre of Wheat], 1850, Form [Copy of an Agreement for Letting Out Ground for Cultivation];

Miscellaneous Notes

Exports From Britain - To Different Countries in 1853 as Compared to 1852;

270-271

460-461

Table [Exports From Britain,1852-1853], Prices, Australia, 1852, 1853, America, British, Colony, Holland, Russia, China;

Miscellaneous Notes

The Budgery Gaan Paroquet; Great Heat of the Atmosphere in Sydney January 30th 1855- Empire;

272

462

Native Bird, Liverpool Range, Namoi River, Maniella [Manilla?] River, Gwyder River, Macintyre River, Balonne River, Maranoa River, Seeds, Ridges, Trees, Weather, Sydney, Colony, Bushfire;

Miscellaneous Notes

Export of Salt Meat;

274

464

Table [Return of the Quantity and Value of Salt Meat, Exported from the Colony of New South Wales (Including the District of Port Phillip) From the Year 1843 to 1850 Inclusive];

Miscellaneous Notes

Preserved Meat in Tins From Grafton on Clarence River; Exports From Wide Bay 1855;

276

466

Grafton, Clarence River, Preserved Meat, Cattle, Northern Districts, Grass, Boiling Down, Government, Victoria, 1854, Armadale [Armidale], New England, Location, Tenterfield, Clarence District, Richmond River, Sydney, Coast, Wide Bay, Newspapers, Tallow, Exporting, Importing, Shipping;

Miscellaneous Notes

Dugong Oil From Moreton Bay;

278

468

Mr Hobbs [Dr], Moreton Bay, Native Animal, Medicine, Doctor, Illness, Chemicals, Seaweed, Mr Wall, Museum, Sydney, Native Fish, Coast, Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Tools, Spirits;

Miscellaneous Notes

Importance of the Squatting Interests of the Colony of New South Wales; Our Beef & Mutton Prospects From The Sydney Morning Herald March 8th 1854;

280-283

470-473

1855, Government, Squatter, Colony, Gold, Exporting, Victoria, Mr Lang, Meat, Butchers, Title [Colonial Secretary], Title [Solicitor General], Melbourne, Stockholder, Sheep, Diseases, Settlers, Station, Districts, Cattle, Murray District, Murrumbidgie [Murrumbidgee] District, Lachlan District, Sydney, Northern District, Tallow, Drought, Newspaper [Article - Supply of Animal Food], 1845-1848, Slaughtering, 1853, Boiling Down, 1852, 1843, Seafood, Pasture, Rivers, Ocean;

Miscellaneous Notes

The Importance of the Australian Colonies to Britain;

284

474

Colony, East Indies, Britain, 1853, Produce, Importing, Australia, America, West Indies, South Africa, Mauritius, Wool, Table [Imports of Wool into Britain 1851 to 1854 from Various Places], 1854, 1851;

Miscellaneous Notes

Growing Injury of the Yellow Lucerne; Steep Recommended for Seed Wheat;

286x

476

Weed, Crops, Hunter River, Millers, Districts, Diseases, Seeds, Chemicals;

Miscellaneous Notes

Steamers To and From Sydney - 1855;

288x

478

Steamer, Sydney, Ports, List [Steamer Descriptions From Sydney to Various Places];

Miscellaneous Notes

The Exports & Imports of New South Wales For 1855

290x

480

List [Imports & Exports of Various Products-1855]

Discovery of Gold in Australia

Discovery of Gold in Australia;

287-288

483-484

1838, Mr McGregor [Shepherd], Settlers, Bell River, Macquarie River, Gold, Sydney, Wellington District, Colony, New South Wales, Mr Strezleki [Count de], 1839, Mr Clarke [Reverend], 1841, Mr Blakefield, 1844, Mr Smith, Lewis Ponds Creek, 1845, Mr Murchison [Sir Roderick], Mr Grey [Earl], 1848, 1846, Australia, Blue Mountains, Minerals, California, Newspaper [Sydney Morning Herald], 1851, Mr Rudder, Western Districts, Mr Hargrave, Brisbane, Prices, Government, Mr Stutchbury [Geological Surveyor], License;

Discovery of Gold in Australia

Gold in New South Wales - E.W. Rudders Letter Sydney April 2nd 1851;

289-290

485-486

Newspaper [Sydney Morning Herald], Newspaper [Letter-Gold Discovery], California, New South Wales, Gold, Colony, Mining, Colonists, Miners, Government, Emigration, Mr Hargrave, Mr Rudder, School of Arts [Sydney];

Discovery of Gold in Australia

Reward to Mr Hargrave the Gold Discoverer; Discoverers of Gold in Victoria;

293

489

Government, New South Wales, Mr Hargrave, Gold, Australia, Mr Clarke [Reverend], Mr Michel, Mr Hiscock, Mr Campbell, Mr Esmonds[?], Mr Bruhn [Dr], Anderson Creek, Clunes, Balarat [Ballarat];

Gold Statistics

New South Wales Gold Circular;

491

G.A. Lloyd Sydney [Bullion Broker], Gold, Miners, 1852, Wages & Conditions, Table [Gold Production & Sales - 1852];

New South Wales

New South Wales Gold Circular;

295

493

Miners, 1852, Wages & Conditions, Table [Gold Production & Sales-1852 & 1853];

Gold Statistics

Comparative Value of Gold From the Mines of Victoria, Ophir, Turon, Braidwood & Wentworth;

296x

495

Prices, Shipping, "Phoenician", Sydney, London, 1851, Victoria, Ophir, Turon, Braidwood, Wentworth, Hanging Rock, Gold, 1852, Minerals, List [Description, Weights & Prices of Gold Dust];

New South Wales

Gold Shipped From Sydney From 1st November 1851 to 31 October 1852;

297

497

Table [Gold Shipments-1st November 1851 to 31st October 1852];

New South Wales

Number of Licenses Issued to Dig Gold From 1st June to November 1851; Total Amount of Gold Shipped From Sydney From the First Discovery of Gold in February Till 31st December 1851; Price of Consumable Articles;

299

499

Prices, London, Exporting, Gold, Sydney, Banks, Population, New South Wales, Produce, 1851, Bathurst, Meat;

New South Wales

Amount of Gold by Escort & Mail to October 1852; Average Earnings; Gold Shipped From Sydney Port Jackson 1851 to 1854;

301

501

Gold, Mail, 1851, 1852, License, Port Phillip, Wages & Conditions, Shipping, Sydney, Table [Gold Shipped from Sydney 1851-1854], Prices;

New South Wales

From Mr Morts Produce Circular Sydney 19th November 1852

303

503

Gold, Servants, Wages & Conditions, 1852, Colony, Land Sales, Squatter, Wool, Prices, Cattle, Immigration;

New South Wales

Mr Hargraves Tour in the Northern Districts; Issue of Licences 8th March 1852; Mr Hargraves Route;

305-306a

505-506

1852, Mr Hargraves, Northern Districts, Gold, Colony, Moreton District, Hanging Rock, Wages & Conditions, Creeks, Prospector, Geology, Minerals, Mr Gills[Dr], Stations, Swamp Oak Creek [or Cockburn River], Mr Durbin, Commissioner, Licence, Ranges, Moreton Bay, Clouds Creek, Tenterfield, Maryland, Warwick, Drayton, Cunninghams Gap, Ipswich, Brisbane, List [Number of Licences Issued for April-June 1852], Port Phillip, Gold Escort, Maitland, Gold Quantities, Government, Prices;

Gold Statistics

Revenue Derived From Gold;

x306-307x

507-508

Table [Revenue & Expenditure Relating to Gold May 1851 to August 1852];

New South Wales

Exportation of Gold From New South Wales From the Date of the Discovery Obtained From the Early Gold Circulars & Other Documents to 24th December 1853;

307

509

Table [Exportation of Gold- August 1851 to December 1853];

New South Wales

Camerons Creek Diggings; Nuggetiana, Camerons Creek, Guira [Guyra] River New England;

x308

511

1852, Guira [Guyra?] River, Location, Armadale [Armidale], New England, Macleay River, Benlomond, Rocky River, Turon Diggings, Mero[?] Diggings, 1855, Jeweller, Ridges, Wolamumbi Diggings, Soil, Rocky River Diggings, Guira Diggings, Drawing [Nugget Shapes From Camerons Creek & Guira River];

New South Wales

Tables of Eight Censuses Taken In New South Wales; Classification of the Occupations of the Colonists of New South Wales From Census 1851;

x309

513

Table [Population in New South Wales & Victoria 1788-1851], Table [Occupations of the Population 1851];

New South Wales

Yield of the Northern Diggings; Ophir The First Australian Gold Mine June 1st 1854;

309

515

Gold, Population, Ophir Diggings, Floods, Weather, Lewis Ponds Creek, Mr Hargrave, Miners;

Gold Statistics

Monster Nugget Forty Seven Pounds Weight Dug Up At Bendigo Victoria Diggings on 9th October 1852;

x310

517

Gold, Bendigo, Minerals, Description [Nugget], Commissioner, Gold Escort, Norfolk, England, Mr Patcher, Victoria, Mining;

New South Wales

Latitude and Longitude of the Northern Gold District -1854;

311x

519

Northern Gold District, Peel River, Macdonald River, Malurundi River, Namoi River, Gwyder River, Rocky River, Bingera Creek, Uralla, Ranges, Co-Ordinates, Geology, Hanging Rock, Clarence River, Mount Mitchell, Gems, Tin, List [Rates Paid For Gold in Sydney From Various Places-September 28th 1855];

New South Wales

The Mint; The Mint June 2nd 1855;

313x

521

Letter [Colonial Secretaries Office Sydney May 10th 1855-Operation & Services of the Royal Mint], Mint, Gold Quantities, Coins;

New South Wales

Gold Fields Licenses Issued in the Pastoral Districts; Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint;

315x-316x

523-524

Table [Number of licenses Issued in Various Districts From 1st April 1854 to 31st March 1855], Letter [Operation & Services of the Royal Mint];

New South Wales

The Mint February 1856; Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint; Commissioners of Gold Mining 1856

317x

525

Coins, 1855, Mr Ward [Captain], Letter [Operation &Services of the Royal Mint], List [Commissioners of Gold Mining-1856 Western, Southern & New England];

An Enquiry Into The Effect Produced by The Deluge Upon Alluvial Deposits of Gold in Australia

Position and State in Which These Deposits Are Found; Production of Gold, Value of Australian Gold, Gold Circulars etc; Anticipated Discoveries of Gold in New South Wales; By William Gardner 1856;

527

[Title page only]

[Drawing]

Evidences of the Retiring of the Pacific Ocean in the East;

318x

531

Drawing [Exhibiting the Ocean Line Marks on the Great Bulga or Former Upright Sea Coast Wall of the Pacific Ocean, Situated in the County of Northumberland in New South Wales. Position of Sentry Box the Remarkable Projection in the Wall];

Alluvial Deposits of Gold in Australia

Alluvial Deposits of Gold in Australia; Indications of the Retiring of the Pacific Ocean in New South Wales in Districts Situated to the Eastward of the Great Northern Cordillera;

1 to 3

535-537

New South Wales, Victoria, Metals, Gold, Southern Australia, Eastern Australia, Range, Tablelands, Co-Ordinates, Rivers, Creeks, Diggings, Geology, Hunter Valley, Fossils, Pacific Ocean, Bulga Mountains, County of Northumberland, 1846, Desert, Benlomond Mountain, New England, Scientific Enquiry, Counties, Falls, Wolondilly [Wollondilly], Berima [Berrima], Location, Deluge, Plains, Bundarra, Byron Plains, Liverpool Plains, Cape of Good Hope, Scotland;

Deposits of Gold in Australia

Anticipated Discoveries of Gold; Western Gold Fields in New South Wales; Northern Gold Fields in New South Wales; Elevation 4205 ft. Gold Deposits in Gravel Red Earth and Clay in New South Wales;

4

538

Gold, Colony, New South Wales, Victoria, Soil, Co-Ordinates, Diggings, Western Districts, Ophir, Turon, Meroo, Tamberoora, Minerals, Elevation, Sand, Ridges, Mountains, Ovens River, Rocky River, Oban [Station?], Mount Mitchell, Tablelands, Geology, Gold Quantities, Jeweler;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Guira [Guyra] Gold Field; Wolamumbi Gold Field; Gold Field at Mount Mitchell; Gold Field at Oban in the County of Gresham;

6

540

Diggings, 1852, Location, Armadale [Armidale], Guira [Guyra] River [or Camerons Creek], Macleay River, Benlomond Mountain, Gold, Uralla, Rocky River, Turon, Gold Quantities, Nuggets, Ridges, New England, Soil, Geology, 1854, Wolamumbi River, Chandlers Peak, Clarence River, Elevation, 1853, Mount Mitchell Station, Sarah River[Garah? R], Shafts, Gold Field, Ann River, Oban Station, Table Land, Miners, Shopkeepers, Wet Diggings;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Characteristic of the Guira [Guyra] Gold Field Camerons Creek New England; Characteristic of Stoney Creek Gold Field Nuggets of Gold Found; Escort For Gold From the Northern Gold Fields of New South Wales;

10

544

Miners, Gold, Guira {Guyra] River, Shafts, Ridge, Geology, Mining, Gold Quantities, Stoney Creek, Prices, Nuggets, Wellington Road, Victoria, 1856, Government, Gold Escort, Freight;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

The Monster Nugget, Largest Ever Yet Discovered in the World, Found in Victoria November 1857 Weighing 145 1/4 lbs or 1743 ounces 13 dwts[?] Blanche Barkly Nugget Discovered in Victoria November 1857; Gold Nugget at the Crystal Palace;

546

Nugget, Melbourne, Gold, Gold Quantities, Prices, Europe, America, Emigration, Colony, Soil, Newspaper [Article - The Gold Nugget at the Crystal Palace];

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Nuggetiana. Specimens Obtained From the Ranges of Camerons Creek or Guira [Guyra] River. New England;

7

547

Drawings [19 Nuggets of Various Shapes];

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Glen Elgin or Bergouilla, Wellingrove, Wellington Vale, and Dundee Gold; Stoney Creek Gold Field July 29th 1856;

9

549

Beardy Plains, Minerals, Gold, Dundee, 1853, Colonists, Mine [Boroodale, in England (Cumberland)], Wellingrove, Glen Innes, Ridges, Rivers, Miners, Metals, Wellington Vale, Berguilla [Bergouilla?], Rocky River, Clarence River, Guira [Guyra] River, Wolamumbi River, Gold Fields, New England, Shopkeeper, Prospectors, Table Lands, Creeks, Cordillera [GDR], Stoney Creek, Nuggets, Gold Quantities, Grass;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Characteristic of the Turon Gold Field Western District in New South Wales; July 15th 1851 First of the Monster Gold Nuggets; Louisa Creek Nuggets October 1851; Stoney Creek Gold Field July 1856;

11

551

Gold, Turon, Turon River, Balaarat [Ballarat], Victoria, Shafts, Blasting, Miner, Gold Fields, Gold Quantities, 1851, Mr Hargraves, California, Sydney, Aboriginal Australians, Mr Kerr [Dr], Nuggets, Louisa Creek;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Gold Diggers Tools The Cradle;

13

553

Drawing [15 Illustrations of Gold Diggers Tools]; Description [Gold Diggers Tools and How They are Used];

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Size of Claims Allowed to Gold Diggers; Size of Claims at Bendigo in Victoria;

555-556

Prospecting, Gold, Claims, List [Allowances in Feet of Claims in Various Terrain]; Gold Field, Western District, Rivers, Uralla, Rocky River, Ridges, New England District, License, Shaft, Miner, Bendigo, Victoria, Wet Diggings, Yankadanda Creek, Commissioners, Gold Act, Springs;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Alluvial Deposits of Gold; Deposits of Gold United With Quartz; Hanging Rock Gold Field Liverpool District; Dry Diggings Bingera Gold Field Gwyder District;

15

557

Gold, Rivers, Nuggets, Ridges, Miners, Creeks, Geology, Diggings, Valleys, Mountains, Bernard River, Peel River, Range, Cordillera [GDR], Hanging Rock, Shafts, Archeology, Gold Field, New England, Drought, Gold Quantities;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Deposits of Gold in Victoria Large Nuggets Within a Few Feet From the Surface; Monster Nuggets Thirty to Fifty Feet Deep; Remains of an Antedeluvian Tree Found in a Shaft Sunk at Balaarat [Ballarat] During 1854; Balaarat [Ballarat] Deposits of Gold in Gravel Fossil Removed;

17

559

Nuggets, Gold Quantities, Dry Diggings, Shafts, Geology, Deluge, Fossils, Ranges, Coal Mine, Newcastle, 1854, Gold, Gravel, Claims, Miner, Trees, Balaarat [Ballarat];

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Discoveries of Gold at Balaarat [Ballarat]; Yuilles Flat; Wardy Yallock Diggings; German Gully; The Gravel Pits;

19

561

Gold Field, Gold, Balaarat [Ballarat], Canadian Gully, The Gravel Pits, Jewellers Shops, Winters Flat, The Lagoon, Eureka, Black Hill, Yuilles Flat, Wardy Yallock Diggings, Prince Regents Gully, German Gully, Creswick Creek, Bunninyong, Miners, Shafts, Claims, Soil, Geology, Gravel, Sand, Gold Quantities, Smythes Creek, Location;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Discoveries of Gold at Bendigo; Description of Shaft Sinking at the White Hills; White Hills Maryborough 1856;

21

563

Mining, Gold Field, Mount Alexander, White Hills, Golden Gully, Kangaroo Flat, Kangaroo Gully, Golden Point, Commissioners Gully, Robinson Crusoe Gully, Milkmaids Flat, Sandhurst, White Horse Gully, Eagle Hawk, Fryers Creek, Forest Creek, Uncle Billys Gully, Campbells Creek, Mount McIvor, Golden Hill, Tarrengower, Shafts, Nuggets, Claims, California, Geology, Mine, Victoria, New South Wales, Rivers, Creeks, Blasting, Soil, Dry Diggings, Millers, Candles [Sperm], Gold Quantities;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Yield of Gold at Bendigo; Eagle Hawk; Mount Alexander; Mount William Gold Field;

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Bendigo, Gully, Golden Gully, White Hills, Creek, Golden Point, Kangaroo Gully, Kangaroo Flat, Commissioners Gully, Nuggets, Gold Quantities, Milkmaids Flat, Miners, Chinese, Population, Wages & Conditions, Eagle Hawk, Sailors Gully, 1853, Fryers Creek, 1855, Banks, Prices, Grampian Mountains, Portland, Belfast, Diggings, Gold Escort;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

The Ovens and Omeo Gold Mines; Extrordinary Yield of Gold in Matrix 1856; Andersons Creek and Plenty Ranges; From Balaarat [Ballarat] to Mount Alexander and Bendigo by Melbourne [Distances in Miles]; From Melbourne to Mount Alexander and Bendigo [Distances in Miles];

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Mine, Australian Alps, Wet Diggings, The Ovens, Gold Fields, Wages & Conditions, Gold Quantities, Victoria, Ranges, Creeks, Plenty Ranges, Diggings, Gold, Location, Melbourne, Table [Distances from Ballarat to Melbourne], Table [Distances from Melbourne to Bendigo];

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Exportation of Gold From the Colony of Victoria Melbourne Gold Circular 1852 to 1856; Gold Produced in 1853 and1854;

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Table [Value of Gold Exported 1852-1856], Gold Circular, 1853, Gold Quantities, Prices, Victoria, 1851, 1854, 1855, Population, 1856, Exporting, Shipping, Port;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Shafts Sunk in the Gold Mines Colony of Victoria; Latitude and Longitude of the Principal Gold Fields in Victoria;

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571

Shafts, Victoria, Mine, Soil, Geology, Gold, Nuggets, Miners, Scientific Enquiry, Colony, Co-Ordinates, Table [Latitude & Longitude of Various Gold Fields in Victoria], New South Wales, Cordillera [GDR], Prospector;

[Deposits of Gold in Australia]

Anticipated Discoveries of Gold in the Great Australian Desert;

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Gold, Desert, Ocean, Deluge, Nuggets, Shafts, Victoria, Darling Plains, Gwyder Plains, Liverpool Plains, Great Dividing Range, Sand, Miners, South Australia, Climate, Explorers, Mr Sturt [Captain], Mr Leichhardt, Moreton Bay, Port Essington, Peak Range, Co-Ordinates, Gulf of Spencer, Gulf of Carpentaria, Mr Mitchell [Sir Thomas], Mr Kennedy, North Australia;

Meteorological Observations

Meteorological Observations Made in New England; Temperature of Melbourne & Sydney; Shipments of Gold From Victoria;

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575

Moredun, Rockvale, Co-Ordinates, Elevation, Table [Lowest, Highest & Mean Temperatures at Moredon 1853-1854 and Rockvale 1854-1855], Temperature, Melbourne, 1840, 1841, Port Jackson, Spring, List [Shipments of Gold 1853-1855 From Victoria] 1854, 1855, 1853;

Colony Of Victoria

[Heading page only];

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[Colony Of Victoria]

The Geelong and Melbourne Railway - Geelong Terminus;

581

Railway, 1853, Geelong, Melbourne, 1855, Gold Fields, Roads, Diggings, Government, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Sandhurst, Drays, Rivers, Creeks, Bridge, Police;

Victoria

Discoveries of Gold in Victoria; Gold Discovered in South Australia in November or December 1849;

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1854, Mr Esmonds, Mr Hiscock, Gold Discoverers, Victoria, Government, Gold, Mr Michel, Mr Campbell, Mr Bruhn [Dr], Newspaper [South Australian Mining Journal], Newspaper [Article-Formation of a Company to Take Advantage of the Rich Deposits of Gold in South Australia(?)-Dated 1849];

Victoria

Estimated Quantity of Gold Shipped by the Colonies of New South Wales and Victoria From the Commencement of the Gold Discoveries to 8th May 1852; Territorial Division of the Colony of Victoria;

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List [Quantity of Gold Shipped by New South Wales & Victoria 1852], List [Counties of the Gippsland, Murray, Portland Bay, Western Port & Wimmera Districts];

Victoria

Gold Statistics Victorian Diggings Description of Shaft Sinking on White Hill; [Same description as on Page 21/563];

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588

White Hill, Bendigo, Claims, Creek, California, Shaft, Diggings, Mines, Rivers, Blasting, Dry Diggings, Gold, Gold Quantities, Miners, Candles [Sperm];

Victoria

Melbourne Markets January 27th 1851; Gold Cup Presented to Mr Hargraves in 1853;

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590

Produce, Prices, Van Diemens Land, Crops, Mr Hargraves, Colonists, Victoria, Gold, 1851, Coins, Description [Gold Cup];

Victoria

Weekly Reports of Mr Khull March 19th & 26th 1853

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592

Gold Quantities, Gold, Gold Escort, Mount Alexander, Bendigo, Population, List [Gold Shipped to London by Various Ships ("Melbourne","Queen of England","Enchanter", "James Alexander","Beulah"), Sydney;

Victoria

Large Diamond From Rio Janeiro 1854; High Price Given For Stock at Bendigo June 1854;

322-323

594-595

Diamonds, Banks [Bank Of England], Prices, Slave, Gold Fields, Squatter, Stockholder, Mine, Cattle, Sheep, Miners, Bendigo, Mr Lucas, Campaspie River, Mr Robertson, Crops, Mr Lynott, Mr McDongall, Edward River, Horses, Melbourne, Mr Wentworth, Dealers, Victoria;

Victoria

White Hills of Bendigo October 9th 1853 Gold in Pipeclay;

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596

Bendigo, Gold, Mining, Geology, Minerals, California, Australia, Miners, Gold Fields, Shafts, Blasting;

Victoria

Exportation of Gold From the Colony of Victoria Circular

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598

Table [Gold Shipped From Victoria 1854-1855];

Victoria

Remains of an Antedeluvian Tree Found in One of the Gold Shafts Sunk at Ballarat 1854 [Similar Report on Page 17/559]; Rich Yield at the Gravel Pits Ballarat, Fossil Removed;

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600

Trees, Miners, Shafts, 1854, Coal, Mine, Newcastle, Hunter River, Gravel Pits, Gold Quantities, Gold, Claims, Prices, Gold Fields, Fossils;

Victoria

Gold Lines Lost and Found Again Prospecting at Ballaarat [Ballarat] July 13th 1854;

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602-603

Warreneep, Gold Field, Claims, Gold Escort, Miners, Fossiker, Gully, Ranges, Eureka, Population, Chinese, Creswick Creek, Avoka, Dry Diggings;

Victoria

Number of Chinese at Bendigo, Propose to Build a Church 1854; Bendigo - Signs of the Times- 1854; Eagle Hawk - Bendigo;

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604

Chinese, Government, Mr Emmett, Church [Protestant], Population, Sandhurst, Brokers, Gully, Miners, Wages & Conditions, Eagle Hawk, Machinery, Gold Rushes;

Victoria

Emeute [Uprising] at Ballaarat [Ballarat] December 1854 From Melbourne Gold Circular December 9th 1854; Census Returns December 1854; Analasis [Analysis] of Sand & Water Worn Pebbles From the Ovens River;

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606

Ballarat, Miners, Military, Rioters, Gold, Gold Escort, Melbourne, Geelong, Gold Quantities, Gold Fields, Census, Victoria, Population, Mining, Tin, Cornwall, Sand;

Victoria

Description of Victoria Diggings 1854 [continued]; Balaarat [Ballarat]; Tarrengower; Ballan; Mount Alexander;

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608

Gold Field, Rivers, Mining, Shafts, Maryborough, Avoca, Diggings, Mount Macedon, Mount Alexander, Balaarat, Location, Gold, South America, Ridges, Mount McIvor, Rocks;

Victoria

Progress of the Victorian Gold Fields 31st December 1854; Fish From the Murray, Diggers Supplied With Fish; Immigration 31st December 1854;

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610

1851, Mr Westgarth, Mr Khull, Gold Quantities, Prices, Murray River, Native Fish, Environment, Gold Field, Miners, Climate, Immigration, England, Victoria, Emigrants;

Victoria

Distances to the Gold Fields; Baalarat March 8th 1855 Large Nugget;

340

612

Table [Distance From Balaarat to Mount Alexander and Bendigo by Melbourne], Table [Distance From Melbourne to Mount Alexander and Bendigo], Table [Distance From Melbourne to Balaarat by Geelong], Nugget, Mr Tresize, Bakery Hill, Shafts, Gold Quantity;

Victoria

Probable Effects of the Gold Discovery;

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614

Gold, Europe, Mr Faucher [M Leon], England, Population, Coins, Spain, Austria, Danube Provinces, India, China, Belgium, Holland, France;

Victoria

Promoting Agriculture Settling the Waste Lands March 5th 1855;

342x-343x

616-617

Chamber of Commerce [Melbourne], Agriculture, Waste Lands, Colony, Land Sales, Crown Land, Depression, Crops, Population, Colonists, Importing, Chili [Chile], America, England, 1850, 1854, Prices [Various Commodities], Settlers, California, Exporting, Victoria, Road, Bridge, Emigrants, Improvement, Government, Speculaters, Land Sales Act, Governor, Farmer, Town, Great Britain, Prices, Courts, Police, Jail, School, Immigrants, Magistrates, Immigration;

Victoria

Discovery of Another Important Gold Field; Stock in Victoria Statistics 27th March 1855; Temperature;

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Gold Field, Victoria, 1855, Keilor Plains, Ballan, Prospecting, Gold, Nuggets, Gold Rushes, Ballarat, Location[Gold Field], Government, Grazing, Leases, Cattle, Sheep, 1854, Districts, Horses, Temperature, Melbourne, 1840, 1841, Port Jackson;

Victoria

Tarrengower 5th April 1855; Melbourne Gold Circular April 14th 1855;

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621

Population, Machinery, Fryers Creek, Nuggets, Heron Nugget, Melbourne, Produce, Prices, Shipment, "Lightning", Gold Export Duty, Gold, List [Population of Gold Miners in Victoria], List [Gold Quantities Transported to Melbourne From Various Places, Amounts For This Week & Year to Date], List [Gold Shipped to Various Places, Weight & Price]:

Victoria

Melbourne Gold Circular by Edward Khull Esquire June 4th 1855;

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623

Price, Gold, Gold Export Duty, Treasury, Description [Treasury/Customs House Deficiencies in Handling/Weighing/Collecting Duty on Gold], List [Number of Miners Arrived & left in Victoria, Numbers For This Week & Year to Date], List [Gold Received from Various Gold Fields in Victoria, Amount for This Week & Year to Date], List [Gold Shipped in 1855, Weight & Price], London, Drafts, Freight, Bank of England, Insurance;

Victoria

September 1855 The Use of Quartz Crushing Machinery; Yield of Gold in Victoria 1st October 1855; Melbourne Gold Circular 22nd December 1855; The Chinese;

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625

Gold, Gold Quantity, Melbourne, Prices, Diggings, Machinery, Gold Escort, Colony, Victoria, England, "The Donald McKay", Mining, List [Weekly Amounts of Gold Returned by Escort August-September 1855, Comparison of 1855 & 1854 Quantities & Shipments], Ballarat, Description [Chinese (Celestial) Mining Methods];

Gold Mining in California

Statistics Etc, Etc; [Heading page only];

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Gold Mining in California

Notice Regarding Diamonds Price of Diamonds; California Population 1802, 1839 & 1850;

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629

Diamonds [Historical Notes on Large Diamonds], Prices, 1855, Population, California, Mr Humboldt, New Spain, 1802, Indians, Mr Forbes, London, 1839, 1831, 1835, Emigrants, United States, 1838, War [Mexico];

Gold Mining in California

The Use of Quicksilver in Gold Washing;

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631

Gold, California, Machinery, Prices, Quicksilver, Sand [Black], Mr James, Soil, Hills, Stockton, Santa Clara, Mining, San Jose, Mr Forbes, Mexico;

Gold Mining in California

Daily Earnings of the Miners in California 1848 & 1849; Population Of California; Sites For Townships in the Mining Districts; Meteorological Observations Monthly Mean Heat;

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633

Miners, Wages & Conditions, 1848, 1849, Population, California, 1854, Commissioner, Town, Land Sales, Farmer, List [Mean Heat For Various Months at Various Places in America];

[New South Wales]

Meteorological Observations Temperature;

345(357)-346

635-636

Table [Temperature at Moredun & Rockvale Stations From October 1853 to September 1855, Elevation & Co-ordinates];

[New South Wales]

Meteorological Observations Outlook, Rainfall, Moon Phases, Sunrise & Sunset Times, Wind Direction, Rain/Fair, Temperature at Various Times & Mean;

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637-648

Table [Weather at Rockvale Station From 1st October 1854 to 30th September 1855, Elevation & Co-Ordinates] [One page per month];