42 NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 
means timberless in the sense of having no timber at all of 
kind, the absence of large trees is a noticeable feature in 
scenery. 
The traveller going westward from the main range on an 
the rivers, from the Gwydir in the north, to the Lachlan in 
in the vicinity of the Great Dividing Range until, before read 
the Darling, he will find that, with the exception of the red 
all the trees so familiar to the dwellers on the East Coast and 
a 
rith trees or shrubs of various kinds, seldom rising 
more than 20 or 30 feet in height. And this brings me 0 * 
