gold-sluice

Updated: May 31, 2025

Rising at the head of the creek, itself a natural gold-sluice, its bed and banks can carry any number of flumes, which would deposit their precious burden in cisterns near the river. I need hardly say they must be made movable, so as to raise their level above the inundation.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative