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22-SEP-2006 Paul Dudley

0395: Rock cutting, showing drill marks

Old Great North Road, near Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales

There are explanatory signs all along this old road, particularly about the method of construction.
You and your convict mate drilled holes in the sandstone with a crowbar and heavy hammer, then you
filled the holes with gunpowder, plugged them, and then you lit the fuse and stood back. Then you
did it again, and again, and . . . . . This was 1830, and you were ten thousand miles from home.

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