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4G NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 
After leaving the Queensland border I followed the N; 
River down to ‘the lake, which terminates its course, and whi 
when. I visited it, was almost full for the second time, as 11 
emptying into the Darling, and the only one which does not 
that river, but after a course of about 100 miles in New Sou 
Wales falls into a depression in the country and forms a lake. 
The Narran Lake has, I peace been dry more than once 
it was first discovered, and as I was informed by some of th 
hands in that part of the SEY. will not last much more 
year after the Narran ceases to flow into it. The lake, a ath 
the two lakes together, are about 15 miles long, and in 
about 8 miles wide, Poe cover, as nearly as I could entitle a 
area of about 35,000 a 
The two lakes are connected by an opening of about : 
yards in width, through which the water flows from the nortit 
lake which receives the Narran River into the southern - 
the lake the channel is well defined and capable of 
a 7. ca body of water, being about 40 yards 
dams. At the time of my visit to Narran Lake, oF 
Water as it is more commonly called, the river had © 
running for about six weeks and the lake had begun to 
showing a sea ove stretch of land round the edge W 
