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solid stream of water 100 feet deep and 200 feet wide, at the rate 
of 1 mile per hour, without any cessation throughout the year. Now, | 
we all know that the Darling not only does not flowin such 
about six months, and even then does not carry one-third of the 
water shown above, and that in summer it is very low, and _per- 
haps stops running. at then becomes of the rain-water? 
large part of it must do, as it is known the waters of the Barcoo ; 
and other rivers do, viz., sink into the ground, to flow at some 4 
lower level. ” 
These considerations point to an inexhaustible supply of water 
from wells, and we cannot be surprised t so many wells have > 
een made and found to confirm the ideas here presented, and s 
there can be no doubt that beneath the surface of our flat country ‘ 
there is an unlimited supply of good wa " 
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