land,' vol. i. p. 43:

"`Look out there!' he continued; `quart-pot corroborree,'
springing up and removing with one hand from the fire one
of the quart-pots, which was boiling madly."

<hw>Quart-pot Tea</hw>, <i>n</i>. Explained in quotations.
Cf. <i>Billy-tea</i>.

1878. Mrs. H. Jones, `Long Years in Australia,' p. 87:

"Ralph, taking a long draught of the quart-pot tea, pronounced
that nothing was ever like it made in teapots, and Ethel
thought it excellent, excepting that the tea-leaves were
troublesome."

188. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia, p. 111:

"`Quart-pot' tea, as tea made in the bush is always called, is
really the proper way to make it. . . . The tea is really
made with boiling water, which brings out its full flavour, and
it is drunk before it has time to draw too much."

<hw>Quartz</hw>, <i>n</i>. a mineral; the common form of native
silica. It is abundantly diffused throughout the world, and
forms the common sand of the sea-shore. It occurs as veins or
lodes in metamorphic rocks, and it is this form of its presence
in Australia, associated with gold, that has made the word of
such daily occurrence. In fact, the word <i>Quartz</i>, in
Australian mining parlance, is usually associated with the idea
of <i>Gold-bearing Stone</i>, unless the contrary be stated.
Although some of the following compound words may be used
elsewhere, they are chiefly confined to Australia.

1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 21:

"Quartz is the mother of gold, and wherever there is an
abundance of it, gold may reasonably be expected to exist
somewhere in the neighbourhood."

1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6. col. 1:

"Two runaway apprentices from a ship are said to have first
crushed quartz."

1890. R. A. F. Murray, `Reports and Statistics of the
Mining Department [of Victoria] for the Quarter ending 31st
December':

"The quartz here is very white and crystalline, with
ferruginous, clayey joints, and--from a miner's point of
view--of most unpromising or `hungry' appearance."

<hw>Quartz-battery</hw>, <i>n</i>. a machine for crushing
quartz, and so extracting gold.

1890. `The Argus,' July 26, p. 4, col. 4:

"There was a row [noise] like a quartz-battery."

<hw>Quartz-blade</hw>, <i>n</i>. blade of a miner's
knife used for picking lumps of gold out of the stone.

1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2:

"They had slashed open his loins with a quartz-blade knife.