Notes of a Journey on the Darling. 
By W. E. Axport, Wingen, N.S.W. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. W., 1 June, 1881.) 
there, I accepted the offer. In the course of my travels I met 
Darling, or Barwon, as it is there 
The country from Murrurundi to Walgett is perhaps as rich as 
any part of the Colony, or even of Australia, consisting of o 
P and low timber, there being a noti scarcity of w 
called, in i sense, forest country. 
_The trees are of a tolerable size for about 100 miles west of the 
Liverpool and after that all the tim! dwarfed. What 
1s called forest land in Australia gets its name on the lucus a non 
lucendo principle, because there is an absence of anything in the 
Shape of genuine forest timber. The massi running up 
here timb 
Some ironbark, and along the banks of the rivers there is a 
gh the 
of good-sized gum trees, but thou country is lial 
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massive trees “— 
hundreds of feet and shutting out the light of day with their — 
