Australian History

[outboard]

I think you meant Henry Brown LOL
well done outboard, but what was the name of the book?
Victoria, As I Found It, During Five Years of Adventure: In Melbourne, on the Roads, and the Gold Fields (1862)

Victoria, as I Found It, During Five Years of Adventure, in Melbourne, on the Roads, and the Gold Fields: With an Account of Quartz Mining, and the Great Rush to Mount Ararat and Pleasant Creek
By HENRY BROWN

 

[DrDuck]

I think I'll give it to goldtruck, as it was an obscure answer and I liked his joke!

 

[goldtruck59]

Thanks DD that was a great and tricky question. Last count I had over a 500 books on Australian Goldfields history but that one isn't one of them.
I will put on the thinking cap.

 

[DrDuck]

Oops, I meant to give it to outboard, not GT, sorry about that, but he had the quote, made the joke, and I'm not sure if he has had too many questions so far!

Here is the link to my source.

http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=15

Hope you don't mind GT!

 

[joao garimpeiro]

Hello everyone,
I love Australia, looks much like the Brazilian climate I'm always seeing good videos of Western Australia. I would love to know the beautiful Kalgoorlie one day.
You guys are very lucky to have been born in this wonderful country called AUSTRALIA.

 

[goldtruck59]

What am I

clue one

I am now a quiet recreational area of rugged Basalt and surrounded by lovely green pasture country. I am near a small country town but in my hey day I was alive with over a 1000 miners as I was reported to be paved with gold in the 1850's.

 

[loamer]

What am I?? Basalt, green pastures, gold, miners, small town. Pick one of about 5,000!!!!

 

[goldtruck59]

Ok Loamer , where am I and what am I called. I have a distinctive and unique name. There you go, that should narrow it down for you. Lots of clues in the original clue also.

Clue 2

I am like Vaughn springs , similar country and I am within 100km of such with a creek running through me.

 

[goldtruck59]

Clue 3

I am regularly used for rock climbing and abseiling. My name sounds a little evil and culinary.
My creek that runs through me is the Wardy-Yallock.

This place is a little obscure and unheard of and was probably a bad choice as a question, but the above clues will generate an answer. I pass it and call in on my way to Hamilton regularly.

 

[DrDuck]

Got it, and there is an interesting article on Trove about the place, but will wait to see if one of the other blokes can come up with the answer, as I don't have much time to think of a question or monitor the forum for a few days.

 

[goldtruck59]

Good on you DD. I thought the first clues were a way forward but I loaded up clue 3 to make sure after Loamer made comment that it was to generalized.
Its a great place one of only a few similar or near similar and certainly only one of a couple that has a recreational area built nearby for people to enjoy the basalt formations.
The Trove article was a good field report on the place and described it very well and all its uses and gold history in the 1850's to early 1860's..
The question without most of Clue 3 , was pretty much google proof and one needed to do some reasonable detective work.
If there is no answer by tomorrow I will give the place and location and pictures and post an easier question.

Cheers and Beers.

 

[goldtruck59]

The answer was Devils Kitchen near Scarsdale and Pigoreet Victoria
Below is some links for further information and a few pics for those that haven't been there or are interested in the history of the Ballarat Goldfields area.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5738597

http://www.chockstone.org/DevilsKitchen/DevilsKitchen.htm

Seeing as you knew the answer Dr Duck and I believe you, its over to you mate when your ready. I'll give it a rest for a few days while I'm busy at work.

 

[DrDuck]

I'm tied up for a few days, and can only monitor the forum sporadically, GT, so how about I pass it on to Outboard, if he is listening. I'll PM him just in case.

 

[goldtruck59]

sounds good to me DD

 

[outboard]

I was born in Scotland in the first quarter of the 19th century and died in Lilydale early the next century

 

[goldtruck59]

you may wish to follow up your post with another clue.

 

[loamer]

David Mitchell, Dame Nellie's Dad?

 

[DrDuck]

Loamer, I reckon David Mitchell is a strong candidate, and I would have suggested him if you had not already done so,

But I'll give Daniel Cameron (c.1819 3 January 1906), who was an miner and politician in colonial Victoria, a go, in case it is not David Mitchell.

 

[loamer]

I have a beauty lined up Dr D. In keeping with the current line of questions - it will start with... I am a .......

 

[goldtruck59]

Loamer Mitchell wasn't born in the first quarter of the 19th century. So if it was him, the clue was wrong. He was born in 1829.
DD the clues match your dates for Cameron.