Chapter Noureddin to Number Nip of N by Brewer's Readers Handbook

3. The Welcome nugget, found at Ballarat. It weighed 184 lbs., and was sold for £10,000. This was the largest ever found.

The first nugget was discovered in New South Wales, in 1851; the next in Victoria, in 1852. The former of these two weighed a hundredweight, and was purchased of a shepherd for £10.

Nulla Fides Fronti.

There is no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.
   —Shakespeare: Macbeth, act i. sc. 4 (1606).

Number Nip, the name of the gnome king of the Giant Mountains.—Musæus: Popular Tales (1782).

(Musæus was a German, uncle of Kotzebue, died 1788.)