156 OCCURRENCE OF ARTESIAN "WELLS, ALBERT DISTRICT, 



" Close to this is a Mud spring, about forty feet in diameter, 

 there is no perceptible flow from it, but -water is always to be 

 found in a hole that has been opened in it. It is similar to some 

 found on the Flinders, in the neighbourhood of Mount Brown, 

 though not retaining the usual shape of a regular truncated cone, 

 which may be owing to it having been trampled down by cattle. 



"Mullyeo is fourteen miles North-east from Wee Wattah, and 

 twenty-four miles back from the Darling. Close to an old native 

 spring Mr. Brown has put down four bores, all of which are still 

 running, although the pipes have been drawn from three on 

 account of the small supply. 



" In the last bore put down, water was struck at 49 feet, and 

 is flowing at the surface at the rate of twelve gallons per minute ; 

 the water here is cooler at the surface, the temperature being 

 about 63° Fahr. I have placed in Mr. Wilkinson's hands some 

 small pieces of bone, found in these bores. Water was struck 

 first at seventeen feet from the surface, and the bore went through 

 drift with no clay from the surface. The flow ceases at a height 

 of four feet above the surface. The pipes are of the same 

 diameter as at Wee Wattah. 



" Groomery is on the Toorah Run, belonging to Messrs. 

 McCaughey and Co., the owners of the Dunlop Station. I am 

 informed that the bore is about 100 feet deep, and the water rises 

 to the surface; the supply is small ; it is about twenty -five 

 miles back from the river, and is in a line with the two wells just 

 described. I was unable to visit it, and I am consequently unable 

 to give any particulars." 



This discovery of Artesian water is of great importance ; and 

 I have no doubt but that in many other localities throughout the 

 Darling District similar water supply will be obtained. 



The fragments of bones above referred to, are probably, those 

 of the Diprotodon ; with them Mr. Brown also found fragments 



