Royal Institution - Sir Roderick Murchison's Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore, 1850. Geological talk in London. 'Upon the table were several specimens of gold Roderick inveighed against what he might almost designate as the popular delusion, that all the Californian region would prove equally productive of the Ural Mountains and the twenty-five districts of the value of £3,800,000 in gold is annually has not hitherto produced more than £1,500,000 ;If, however," said Sir Roderick, in conclusion, &q
Royal Institution - Sir Roderick Murchison's Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore, 1850. Geological talk in London. 'Upon the table were several specimens of gold Roderick inveighed against what he might almost designate as the popular delusion, that all the Californian region would prove equally productive of the Ural Mountains and the twenty-five districts of the value of £3,800,000 in gold is annually has not hitherto produced more than £1,500,000 ;If, however," said Sir Roderick, in conclusion, "we allow ourselves to speculate on the moral effects of this golden shower, we must, I apprehend, admit, with an ancient historian (Diodorus Siculus - but no geologist), that gold is obtained with toil, is retained with difficulty, creates everywhere anxiety, and in its use produces both pleasure and pain". From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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