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A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE GOLD REGIONS
OF THE WORLD,

WITH

A TREATISE ON THE GEOLOGY OF GOLD.

BY

JOHN CALVERT,

OF AUSTRALIA,

MINERAL SURVEYOR.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1853.

TN 420 .C17

RICHARD KEYSELL,

PRINTER,

24, CURSITOR STREET, CHANCERY LANE.

Science be 2/22/54

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G.,

LORD WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES; CHIEF STEWARD OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL, IN CORNWALL AND DEVON, ETC.

SIR,

I beg most respectfully to dedicate to Your Royal Highness this Book on the Gold Regions of these Islands, trusting that it may meet with Your Royal Highness's approbation. Your Royal Highness, as a man of science, and as guardian of our chief mineral district, has done much for the benefit of mining interests, and more particularly by your patronage of mining education. I hope, therefore, that you may be pleased to give your countenance to this subject, and thereby promote a new and valuable branch of

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