diggings

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Bax read as follows:— “Kangaroo Flats, Daisy Hill Diggings, “Australia, 10th January, 18—.

From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

In the River Diggings the mining was carried on in the coarse river gravels, and by the methods of the Brazilian negroes and of gold placer-miners.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

His comrades also mounted, and in a few minutes more the three were riding away from Pine Tree Diggings as fast as the nature of the ground and the darkness of the hour would permit.

From Twice Bought by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

There are four quartz-mills in the county, one at French Gulch, one at Middle Creek, one at Muletown, and one at Old Diggings.

From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer)

We stopped at Morisson's Diggings two or three days.

From A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer by Bailey, Washington