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Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide

Chapter 9: NOTICE TO GOLD DIGGERS.
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A first-hand manual for prospective gold seekers in Victoria, combining route directions, packing lists, and practical tips on tools, clothing, and provisions. The author describes the overland road from Melbourne through named stopping points, noting inns, prices, road conditions, and hazards such as difficult animals and boggy terrain. Interspersed anecdotes illustrate both sudden luck and the hardships of travel. On arrival he sketches the bustling life at the diggings, detailing men working, wheeling, and washing soil, and identifying principal creeks and localities. Practical cautions advise light baggage, buying locally when possible, and sensible preparations for camp life.

NOTICE TO GOLD DIGGERS.

Mr. CONNEBEE Publisher, 174 Elizabeth-street, in directing attention to Mr. Bonwick’s judicious suggestion, in page 4, of the preceding work—“Take up with you a few choice books because you should be prepared to keep up your intellectual position”—begs to inform Gold Diggers, and others, about to visit our mines, that he has procured from London and Sydney for their especial use, pocket editions of almost all our eminent authors, and that he has several thousand volumes now on sale at his Establishment, exactly adapted for those who desire to obtain valuable information or rational recreation, compressed in the smallest possible compass.

Mr. C’s Catalogue of New Works may be obtained gratis at 174 Elizabeth-street.

Transcriber’s Note

Errors in the text have been corrected where they can be reasonably attributed to the printer or editor, or where the same word appears as expected elsewhere. Inconsistencies in punctuation or the spacing of characters have been resolved with no further notice.