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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 614

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t part of the water through a hose and used it to break up thelumps in his sluice box. Then as he gradually removed the gravel and thebanks about him became higher, he turned his hose toward the bank andbrought more water from a higher level, until, to quote Bowie, a forty-inchwrought-iron pipe has… … 582 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX1 CENTURY field, Cal., nearly a million yards of gravel, containing but two and ninetenths cents per cubic yard, was moved in a single season, and at a profit. As the banks became poorer, the miners turned their attention to the riverbeds. In New Zealand, in the…

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