THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO THE DIGGINGS.
The Overland Route to the Diggings is now becoming the favourite one, and would shortly altogether supersede the route by sea, if suit-,,-, able, accommodations were provided along the road. £, A party set out from this office on the 24th of January last, and they report having- crossed ilnT* desert without any difficulty, and complain of nothing except the tedionsness of the journey which would have been hardly less, had they take., ship for Melbourne, and then tramped up to Mount Alexander, a distance of seventy-five miles on foot. *
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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 68, 24 April 1852, Page 8
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95THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO THE DIGGINGS. Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 68, 24 April 1852, Page 8
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