the graves, being six feet, would, none of them, have touched

the alluvial bottom. There was nothing strange in the fact

that none of the crowd of experienced diggers who rushed the district

had thought of the cemetery and racecourse. Old brick chimneys and houses,

the clay for the bricks of which had been taken from

sites of subsequent goldfields, had been put through the crushing-mill

in subsequent years and had yielded `payable gold'. Fossicking Chinamen

were said to have been the first to detect a case of this kind.