160 HISTORY OF FLOODS IN THE RIVER DARLING. 
1851.—B. Dickinson: Drought all year. E. Morley, J.P.: Dry 3 
year. 5 
1852.—A. Ferguson: We had heavy rain in June, 1852, and a 
good flood in the Castlereagh, the first for eleven years. 
B. Dickinson : There was a good deal of rain in 1852 on the 
Darling, and the river was continually running a good stream 
until 1855, when I left. 
E. Morley, J.P.: Splendid rain all through Riverina in 1852, 
1858. Se a 1858, Mr. Suttor says the country appeared to be 
ng from d rought. 
1859. Jens, 1859, Mr. Suttor says, two steamers passed up. 
one reached Brewarri ina ; so that there must have boul 
then a good “flood i in the Darling. 
1859-60.—Seasons good, end 1858 to end of 1860. Mr. Suttor. 
1861.—Mr. M‘Intosh : A floodinthe river and after that a drought. 
1862,—Mr, Hatton, Louth : River dry for miles; only time it was 
as bad as early part o 
1862.—In ade river got very low, steamers stuck above 
Wentworth. 
The river gradually dried up. 
1863.—February, 1863. October, 1863, the Darling rose 38 feet 
at Cultowa —Mr. Suttor; March, 1863, the Darling came 
down in great flood.—J. S. M‘Intosh. 
1864.—Mr. Suttor, 1864: The highest flood on record, reached 42 
feet at Cultow 
Mr. Qui ii Widens, says the 1864 flood there was about 
2 feet 6 pas higher than the present one, October 6, 1886. 
Mr. Suttor : Seasons good, 1863 and 1864. 
Greatest flood on record ; Mr. T. Cadell says the water ex- 
0 
for 7 weeks, high all peer ne another flood in September 
nearly as high as that in hi 
(Tolarno Manager) Reid’s Late: was sane with water at this 
time, for the first time within the wledge of the white 
man ; the flood of 1870 did not ne it 
Mrs. E. J. Spark: The flood in September _ year was nearly | 
as high as that in March; at Bourke horses had to swim 
mile in order to get over it, The king of rh eon told Me , 
E. J. Spark that he had never heard of such a’ high 
before. The reason of the great flood in March was, the rain d 
was general, and all the water from the tributaries met in t 
Darling 
cial Bank now s level 
Mr. Hatton, feng "1864 flood 45 feet above summer 1¢ 
Thomas J ohnson, captain of the “Jolly Miller,” steamer, poor 
1864 flood was wt : “egneietpeen: in Bourke where Commer — 
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