| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 526 ページ
...buy here for a penny, were so precious that they were cut up and sold by weight — from half-a-crown to four shillings the pound being readily paid for...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain-wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears... | |
| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 494 ページ
...buy here for a penny, were so precious that they were cut up and sold by weight — from half-a-crown to four shillings the pound being readily paid for...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain-wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears... | |
| Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 410 ページ
...what passed for it, rose in price in a still more startling manner ; Holloway's pills selling at a shilling each or a guinea per box. It was a valley...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain-wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves, that the river appears... | |
| Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 446 ページ
.... Constitutions that had borne the hardships of other fields broke down here, wrote an oyo- witness of the scene, and hundreds have perished, dying unattended...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain-wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves, that the river appears... | |
| James Platt - 1880 - 220 ページ
...valley of death. " Constitutions that had borne the hardships of other fields broke down here," wrote ;n eye-witness of the scene ; " and hundreds have perished,...unknown. The little levels between the stream and :he base of the mountain wall for ten miles along the valley are so thickly studded with graves that... | |
| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1882 - 510 ページ
...buy here for a penny, were so precious that they were cut up and sold by weight, from half-a-crown to four shillings the pound being readily paid for...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountainwall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears... | |
| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1882 - 512 ページ
...for them. Physic, or what passed for it, rose in price in a still more startling manner,—Holloway's Pills selling at one shilling each, or a guinea per...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountainwall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears... | |
| John Bernard Mannix - 1913 - 462 ページ
...Constitutions that had borne the hardships of other fields broke down here," wrote an eye-witness, " and hundreds have perished, dying unattended and unknown....that the river appears to run through a churchyard." Some left the diggings, thinking that even gold could be purchased too dearly. Many remained to take... | |
| John Bernard Mannix - 1913 - 470 ページ
...Constitutions that had borne the hardships of other fields broke down here," wrote an eye-witness, " and hundreds have perished, dying unattended and unknown....that the river appears to run through a churchyard." Some left the diggings, thinking that even gold could be purchased too dearly. Many remained to take... | |
| Sandra Peart - 2003 - 472 ページ
...we buy here for a penny, were so precious that they were cut up and sold by weight from half-a-crown to four shillings the pound being readily paid for...little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain-wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears... | |
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