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" Impressed with the conviction that gold would, sooner or later, be found in the great British colony, I learned in 1846 that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. I thereupon encouraged the unemployed miners of Cornwall to emigrate and dig for gold,... "
Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains ... - Page 423
by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1854 - 523 pages
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Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a ..., Volume 2

Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1860 - 788 pages
...British Colony. I learnt in 1846 with satisfaction that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. 1 thereupon encouraged the unemployed miners of Cornwall...first printed documents relating to Australian gold." August 25th, 185 1, Lieutenant-Governor CJ Latrohe announced to Earl Grey from Melbourne, the discovery...
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A Descriptive Guide to the Museum of Practical Geology: With Notices of the ...

Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Robert Hunt, Frederick William Rudler - Geological museums - 1867 - 188 pages
...with the conviction that gold would, sooner or later, be found in the great British colony, I learned in 1846, with satisfaction, that a specimen of the...district. These notices were, as far as I know, the first published documents relating to Australian gold." — Siluria, chapter on the original Formation of...
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A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines, Volume 2

Andrew Ure - 1867 - 918 pages
...thereupon encouraged the unemployed miners of Cornwall to emigrate, and dig for gald as they dugfor tin in the gravel of their own district. These notices...first printed documents relating to Australian gold." August 25th,185l,Lieutenant-Governor CJ Latrobc announced to Earl Grey from Melbourne, the discovery...
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The Natural History of Commerce: With a Copious List of Commercial Terms and ...

John Yeats - Commerce - 1870 - 486 pages
...conviction that gold would, sooner or later, be found in the great British colony, I learned in 1846 that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. I...district. These notices were, as far as I know, the first published documents relating to Australian gold." (" Siluria.") Mineral veins occur in igneous as well...
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The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce: With a Copious List of ...

John Yeats - Commerce - 1878 - 460 pages
...conviction that gold would, sooner or later, be found in the great British colony, I learned in 1846 that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. I...district These notices were, as far as I know, the first published documents relating to Australian gold." (" Siluria.") Mineral veins occur in igneous as well...
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The history of a lump of gold

Alexander Watt (F.R.S.S.A.) - Gold - 1885 - 106 pages
...Colony. I learnt, in 1846, with satisfaction that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. I therefore encouraged the unemployed miners of Cornwall to emigrate,...first printed documents relating to Australian gold." The actual discover}' of the gold-fields of Australia is attributed to a gentleman named Hargreaves,...
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Cornish Notes & Queries: (first Series)

Cornish Telegraph - Cornwall (England : County) - 1906 - 370 pages
...conviction that gold would, sooner or later, be found in the great British Colony, I learned in 1846 that a specimen of the ore had been discovered. I...district. These notices were, as far as I know, the first published documents relating to Australian gold." — (" Siluria "). CWE URANIUM. What is the name...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 60

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1883 - 584 pages
...discovered. I thereupon encouraged the unemployed miners of Cornwall to emigrate and dig for gold as they dig for tin in the gravel of their own district. These notices were, as far as I know, the first published documents relating to Australian gold." Geological studies are valuable, not only from a...
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Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

Royal Society of Tasmania - Botany - 1887 - 358 pages
...none had yet been found in the Australian ridge, which I termed in anticipation the ' Cordillera.' Impressed with the conviction that gold would, sooner...first printed documents relating to Australian gold." 1 have italicised the part which indicates that Sir B. Murchison was not led to make his sagacious...
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