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gold country 
a region in which gold is present, or believed to be present, in paying quantities.
- 1748 It is very justly observed by Capt. Fox, that from the Accounts we have of these three Voyages, it looks as if they had a mind to keep this Gold Country to themselves.
- 1863 The miners who are flocking down the Fraser to take up their quarters in Victoria, bring abundance of intelligence about the gold country.
- 1910 Later on he went over the cañon trail of the Peace River into the gold country of British Columbia.
- 1748 It is very justly observed by Capt. Fox, that from the Accounts we have of these three Voyages, it looks as if they had a mind to keep this Gold Country to themselves.