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for the formation of small natural depressions a few feet or yards in 
diameter, as we see them made almost every season. en the 
ground cracks, and afterwards rain falls so as to close up the cracks, 
the surface does not return to a perfect level, but every place where 
a crack was situated forms a hollow by the falling in of the sides, 
and any of these hollows, if situated in a dry country and capable 
of holding water for a time, would be sufficient to start a gilgie. 
some un mee watercourse. 
n most parts of the Duetinge watershed where I have been, but 
more particularly o on Messrs. Crean and Featherstonhaugh’s run, 
which is situated between the Calpe and Warrego Rivers, there . 
are to be seen depressions of 2 0 r 3 feet in depth and sometimes 4 
down wit it some portion of the clay soil, and of course mus 
ie up to any means so that water would stand in the hollow, - 
a gilgie would be the result. 
I could not hear of any one having attempted to sink a well in 
one of these depressions, although it seems to me they would be 
most likely places in whi search for water. _The we -known 
in many cases, 
With supplies of water that would " sieathatintibies and one might 
also infer, generally, from the fact of the surface water having 
found its way through the clay at these places, that there the clay 
mer least thickness and the water-bearing strata nearest to the 
SU 
After r inspecting the runs on Mara Creek, I had to go out to 
that part of the Colony near the northern boundary, where the 
Warrego River enters from —_— for the -_— of ap- 
praising a run called Gerrarra. After crossing th Darling at at 
Brewarrina, for the second time, I pent out to a station called 
es situated on the Cato Creek, about 4 miles north 
after t a course of a few miles. The Quantambone, or Cato Station, <. 
8 it is now called, is the property of Mr. John Todd, and by him 
