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to Yass, thence along the Boorowa River to Cowra and northerly 

 to Orange, thence along the north-eastern boundary of Ashburn- 

 ham, and thence along the Bell River to Wellington. 



CENTRAL counties. 



CI. Wagga-Forbes-Dubbo County. 



This is another of the intermediate counties. It connects the 

 tableland with the western plains. 



Its boundaries are : — East, southern tableland and Liverpool 

 Range county; north, Liverpool Plains; west, conventional lines 

 joining Coonamble to Dubbo, Dubbo to Narrandera, and Narran. 

 dera to Corowa [a more correct boundary would be a somewhat 

 sinuous line between Narrandera, Forbes and Dubbo] ; south, 

 Murray River. 



C2. Liverpool Plains County. 



I would define it as including the counties of Darling, Nande- 

 war, Jamison (eastern half), Baradine (eastern half), White, 

 Pottinger, Buckland, Parry, and the western half of Inglis. 

 Bounded on the east by New England ; on the west it 

 tapers off into the sterile sandy country, and is bounded by a 

 conventional line from Coonamble to Bogabilla ; on the south by 

 the Liverpool Range. Mean elevation say 900 feet. 



Co. Macintyre-Gwydir County. 



It includes the upper waters of the Macintyre and Gwydir. 



It slopes from New England to the west, Avhere it joins the 

 sandy or sterile jolains, being bounded by the conventional line 

 from Coonamble to Bogabilla. It is a county corresponding in 

 some respects (though drier) to the Upper Richmond-Clarence 

 county on the east. The floras of C3 and E8 are somewhat 

 different. C3 tones off into W4, while E8 tones off into E7. 



WESTERN COUNTIES. 



Western Plains. 

 The western plains comprise the greater portion of New South 

 Wales, extending from north to south. There is considerable 



