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water reaches the lower part of Mara Creek. Mr. Yeomans, of 
Gilgoin, showed me a well, which is situated about 10 miles east 
of Mara Creek and 15 miles south of the Darling, which there 
flows east and west. The well or spring is called in that part of 
the country “the cuddie,” which I was informed means, in the 
language of the aboriginals, “bad water’ ; but as I have heard of 
two or three places about there called by different names, all of 
through the same clay. The cuddie is situated in the centre of a 
water has retired, the trunks of the trees, to the height at which 
it stood, are disco. i 
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levels. When the country was first taken up, the cuddie was 
simply a bog-hole, which never dried up—always, even in the 
Scooped oe ae ‘in dry 
cooped it out, but forming a dangerous trap for cattle, as, in 
times, they were sure to be tempted in looking for water, and, 
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Mo. Bot. Garden, 
1897. a 
