208 HISTORY OF FLOODS IN THE RIVER DARLING. 
Beanbah, at Nebea, and a few other places. At Coonamble a 
natural bar at the confluence of Mogmoodine Creek with the river | 
dams up a large and permanent supply of water in the creek, and 
has the appearance of a large ornamental lake. I do not thi 
this has ever been known to be dry, but I have seen it very much 
reduced in size and very muddy. The large waterhole at 
Gungalgina on the Nedgera Creek I have seen dry. In 186 
there were some welcome thunderstorms, but they were very 
limited in extent. I remember one which started the Castlereagh 
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position of the hand-rails could only be known by the ripple, the 
water being several inches above them. This river passes throu 
t there was no great extent of water outside 
ts banks. I followed it from Cobbora to Denison Town at the 
highest of the fiood. 
The largest. flood I ever witnessed was in the Castlereagh in 
January, 1874, about 12 miles below Coonabarabran, The water 
rose with wonderful rapidity, I believe fully 30 feet, still it was 
in most places confined within its banks. I tried to swim across, 
