| He found a city bristling with the tents of fortune seekers on their way to the gold diggings. |
| They were followed two years later by large numbers of Chinese men on their way to the Victorian gold diggings. |
| The pits began to fill with water, making the peat more difficult to extract and eventually the diggings were abandoned. |
| He was keen enough to walk to the diggings at Yam Creek Reef where he camped with a party of prospectors from Kapunda. |
| From that location, they could see to the north twenty miles to the Crow Creek diggings just west of the Missouri River. |
| Indeed, there are long mole-like tunnel diggings criss-crossing everywhere. |
