Excerpt from The Gold Colonies of Australia: Comprising Their History, Territorial Divisions, Produce, and Capabilities, How to Get to the Gold Mines, and Every Advice to Emigrants Tue primary Object of the present volume is to give to the general reader and intending emigrant a complete account of the Gold Fields of Australia; their rise, progress, and present condition. The second Object, to afford him as complete an insight into the country in which this extraordinary discovery has been made. To supply him, in short, with a larger mass of practical information relative to the gold colonies of Australia than has ever before been brought within so moderate a com pass and price. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.