A Visit to THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA IN FEBRUARY, 1852; TOGETHER WITH MUCH USEFUL INFORMATION FOR INTENDING EMIGRANTS. BY THE REV. DAVID MACKENZIE, M.A., AUTHOR OFTEN YEARS' PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA," WM. S. ORR AND CO., AMEN CORNER. J. MCGLASHAN, UPPER SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN. 1853 203. d. 271. PREFACE. My only object in the publication of the following pages being to supply such persons of the labouring classes of Great Britain and Ireland as may wish to try their luck at our Australian gold fields with a cheap and familiar guide, I have carefully avoided, as much as possible, the use of technical or scientific terms, which, however appropriate they might appear to learned geologists, would only serve to perplex men of plain understanding. And the same reason has also induced me to omit a description of the geology or mineralogy of the gold country. On some points there may, I freely admit, be a deficiency in the amount of information I have supplied; but I can safely affirm, that I have stated nothing but what I myself have seen, or have learned from the most undoubted authority. |