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coastal range, and 

 follows the rock}' 

 backbone which is 

 also the route of the 

 Great Northern Rail- 

 way Line, with the 

 busy centres of Tarn- 

 worth, Armidale, Glen 

 Innes and Tenterfield 

 as successive vcrtcbrtc 

 in its spinal column. 

 From the Nandewar 

 Range it extends 

 westward along the 

 course of the River 

 Namoi, and on from 

 the junction of this 

 stream with the River 

 Barwon up to the 

 Queensland border, 

 where its boundary 

 is marked by the 

 travelling-stock town 

 of Mungindi. The 

 town-centres along 

 the branch-route are 

 Werris's Creek, Gun- 

 neclah and Narrabri. 

 The north boundary 

 line of this roughly- 

 drawn triangle is 

 made by the meander- 

 ing rivers which cut 

 off New South Wales 

 from Queensland - 

 the Macintyre and 

 the Dumaresq. The 

 eastern boundary of 

 the Northern District 

 is the coastal range 

 which flanks the great 

 New England pla- 

 teau, and this mountainous parallel to the Big Divide cuts the coast off from the 

 inland-country and makes a tropical seaward slope which is popularly known as " The 



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