[119] The diggings are seventy to one hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. There is gold on Victoria River.
Jacks, in his report to the Queensland Government, published March or April of 1880, reports no paying gold in Yorke’s peninsula.
One hundred miles from Port Darwin and twenty-six miles from the Adelaide River a new rush occurred in July 1880: nuggets from 70 to 80 oz. of common occurrence; one found weighed 187 oz.
[120] Scientific American, Aug. 14, 1880.
[121] E. J. Elliott, “The Age of Cave Dwellers in America,” Pop. Sci. Monthly, vol. xv. p. 488.
[122] Scientific American, Jan. 24, 1880.
[123] Macmillan’s Magazine, quoted in Pop. Sci. Monthly, No. 82.
[124] Œuvres, I. 7, pp. 197, 198.
[125] Two Voyages to New England, p. 124; London, 1673.
[126] Robert Knox, The Races of Men; London, 1850.