TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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is situated about twenty-five miles south-west of tile town ol Goulburn on th,- Unl.-r- 

 line between the counties of Argyle and Murray. It is twenty-five miles in length ;m.l 

 eight miles in breadth, and lies at the feet of the I'M- Divide, on its western side. On 

 the other side of the ridge, and a few miles directly east of Lake George, is the little 

 sheet of fresh water known as Lake Hathurst. To the eastward of Jerilderie, in ihe 

 county Urana, is situated the small lake of the same name, and surrounding it are a f ew 

 lagoons, also dignified with the designation of lakes. Approaching the head-waters of the 

 Talyawalka, one of the tributaries of the Darling, are a chain of fresh-water swamps, 

 and on the western side of the same river the most important lagoons are Lakes 

 Menindie, Cawndilla, Tandon and Tandare ; farther north is the broad swamp called 

 Poopelloe Lake, but few of these are permanent. In the north-west corner of the 

 colony occurs another chain of so-called lakes, but they are little better than swamps, 



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full in the rainy seasons, but drying rapidly with the approach of the summer heat. 

 The lake area is singularly small in a country containing three hundred and eleven thousand 

 and seventy-eight square miles, or one hundred and ninety-nine million ninety thousand 

 and two hundred and seventeen acres a tract of country more than half as large again 

 as Prance, or five times the area of England and Wales. 



At one time the term New South Wales was applied to the entire eastern half of 

 the Continent, this being the name given it by Captain Cook who took possession of it 

 five different times, landing first at Botany Bay and finally at Possession Island, the 



