100 WATER SUPPLY IN THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
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The only attempt which has yet been made to collect and tabu- 
late information concerning the wells that have been sunk in the 
interior was made by Mr. T. K. Abbott, : 
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in sand or gravel with abundance of fres water, six in cla’ 
with salt water, eight in rock with water hard to brackish, one 
m sand with water bitter, and one in rock with water good. 
It Must not be supposed that this number (eighty-nine) repre- 
sents all the wells sunk in a given area of country, as there 
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shed of Cox’s Creek and the Mooki River, seventy-three bottomed 
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