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It had also the merit of being economical; we took matters in hand, and consequently our four days cost us only 2l. 8s. I have spoken much about 'hydraulicking' in this chapter, and I shall now borrow a few details concerning the operation from Sir William Logan, who, in his 'Geological Survey of Canada, quotes Mr. William P. Blake.
And, lastly, the sluice begat the jet, or hydraulicking proper, which is at present the highest effort of placer-mining. We thus reverse the primitive process which carried the wash-dirt to the water; we now carry the water to the wash-dirt.
"Yep, and start the stock exchanges " Again they were convulsed. Joe Hines rolled over on his sleeping-robe, holding his sides. "And after them will come the big mining sharks that buy whole creeks where you-all have been scratching like a lot of picayune hens, and they-all will go to hydraulicking in summer and steam-thawing in winter " Steam-thawing! That was the limit.
We shall find this cheap contrivance useful when 'hydraulicking' the auriferous clays of the Gold Coast. Then we came to Ponta do Sol, the only remarkable site on the trip, famous for bodice-making and infamous for elephantiasis.
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