. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . It was the largest mass of pure gold everdiscovered in the world, its weight being one hundred and thirty-four pounds, eleven ounces, and the presumed value iJ10,000sterling (or *48,700.) Mr. Green said that when they discovered the nugget at thebottom of the hole, the first thing
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . It was the largest mass of pure gold everdiscovered in the world, its weight being one hundred and thirty-four pounds, eleven ounces, and the presumed value iJ10,000sterling (or *48,700.) Mr. Green said that when they discovered the nugget at thebottom of the hole, the first thing they did was to cover it upagain and think, and wait until night. In the meantime one ofthe men was despatched for an armed escort, and in the gloomof night they secured the nugget, placed it on the back of a horse,and marcL^ 1 off for Melbourne, leaving one of the number to sellthe hole. Next day the news of the astonishing discovery spreadlike wildfire, and miners from all quarters came to the spot. Thehole was then put up to the highest bidder and fetched seven oreight hundred pounds sterling. The four men then took shipfor England, and there I found them, exhibiting the nugget atsixpence per head in Wylds Great Globe. The nugget was foundon January 31st, 1853, and I saw it on July 6th the same year. oef.
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