say, eighteen inches across the top. You get it full of wash dirt,
squat down at a convenient place at the edge of the water-hole,
where there is a rest for the dish in the water just below its own depth.
You sink the dish and let the clay and gravel soak a while,
then you work and rub it up with your hands, and as the clay dissolves,
dish it off as muddy water or mullock. You are careful
to wash the pebbles in case there is any gold sticking to them.
And so till all the muddy or clayey matter is gone, and there is nothing
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