Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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him.Denman agreed to tell Nash, and leave it to his honour to share anyresults. He then gave Nash a letter to Henry Best, then in chargeof Traviston Station, asking Best to entertain Nash, and in themorning to put him on the Maryborough marked tree line. He toldNash to be careful to follow the marked tree line, and when sixmiles from Traviston he would see a broad creek, which he was tocross, and then go on six miles to a narrow deep creek, with a sidingcut away and the crossing logged. Nash would then find himself ingold country, and near there a nice clear waterhole on the left of themarked tree line. Nash was to prospect at the gully, and wouldprobably find gold there. That gully is the present Nashs Gully inthe centre of Gympie. Three weeks afterwards, Denman was riding along the markedtree line, the present site of Mary Street, and saw Nash come downto the waterhole with a dish of wash-dirt. He told Denman that sofar he had only got a few colours, and added : If I cannot get any
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