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private publishers: C Bridges-Webb, N Chester & J Gilder, 1971. hardcover, 7" x 9¾", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. Map endpapers, frontis photograph ('Richard Mackay in 1903), eleven b&w photographs, Appendix ('Notes by Angus McMillan'), and index. These are Richard Mackay's memories of the scores of years he spent in the Victorian Highlands (Australia) amongst the alluvial miners and quartz reefers, with emphasis on Woods Point, Matlock, Walhalla districts. Mackay lived 1834-1926, and wrote these recollections in 1915 (some paragraphs and chapters in the original have been rearranged here to present a logical sequence to the events).