Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871
At Ballarat, Creswick, Beechworth, Yackandandah, Sand hurst, Heathcote, Maryborough, Avoca, Castlemaine, Fryer's Creek and Ararat, some of the timber for the mines has to be brought already from distances as remote as 10 to 16 miles, according to returns of the Mining Surveyor, kindly furnished by Mr. R. Brough Smyth. At Pleasant Creek the miners have to go every year a mile further for their wood.
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