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In his Land, Labour and Gold, digger William Howitt commented on the consumption of alcohol.
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- Robyn Annear's research Notes prepared in the course of writing the book, Nothing But Gold; Private Hands
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All over Ballarat bottles broken and whole lie about in such quantities, that it is wonderful how horses go anywhere on the field without getting lamed. There was a pool down in the basin, not very far from the camp, into which literally thousands of bottles were thrown. Before all the public-houses on the road, there lie heaps, sometimes of many waggon-loads, and all along the bush you still find them, some dashed against the trees, and others still whole.
