NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 47 
river into the southern lake, which has no apparent outlet. The 
strange thing about this lake is the enormous quantity of water 
Mr. 
arran River, about 8 miles above the lake, he would of course 
have a good opportunity of observing it. I endeavoured to form 
clusion, as if it were connected with the Darling it is aonnene: 
possible but that the place where the Narran water reached the 
was dry, but one stockman who had been on the run for some years 
described it to me as full of large holes. The fact that after the 
river had ceased to run for six weeks there was still a current 
owing from the northern to the southern lake would go to 
show that the water idly in the southern than 
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m the northern portion. Narran Water seems to 
T may Say in millions. On on 
water’s edge for about 10 miles, and for the whole distance 
covered for some hundreds of yards from the shore with ducks of 
all kinds and wild geese, and a little further out were vast flocks of 
when the channel is full by examining the crossing-place where the 
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