‘I have been on all the olden fields of Victoria - over their flats, through their gullies, and amongst their reefs. I have fossicked on their surface (* Fossicking means picking, prying, or examining minutely), examined their shafts, crawled through their drives, and worked in their quartz tunnels...’

Image: Fossicking
Artist: S.T. Gill

Text: Life in Victoria
Author: William Kelly


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