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CASTLEMAINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTLEMAINE  , a

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town of Talbot county, Victoria,
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Australia, 78 m. by
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rail N.N.W. of Melbourne . Pop . (1901) 5704 . The gold-mines here were among the first discovered in the colony, and dredging for gold is carried on in Barker's and Forrest creeks, at the junction of which the town stands . Slate and flagstone are largely quarried in the
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district, which also produces wine and much fruit, especially apples . Castlemaine has a reputation as a
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health resort in cases of pulmonary complaints .

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