f4 NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 
I was told of a remarkable sight which can be seen any 
morning from the place where his head-station is situa 
the back of the Cato head-station, in a north-west direction f 
the Darling, isa very large extent of timberless country, th 
being nothing in view as far as one can see to the north and wel 
but a grass-covered plain. On the morning after I reached th 
Cato I got up about half-an-hour after sunrise, and, looking 0 
across the plain to the north-west, I saw, at a distance apparel 
of about 3 or 4 miles, a long line of cliffs extending 20 
seemed to be growing. examined it carefully with an oper 
glass, and found that if I had not seen the open plain before, ‘ 
there is such a dead monotony produced by intensely level pl 
and stunted trees, with sluggish streams of muddy water wal 
ing about as if they were uncertain as to which way the 
understand how this peeuli at 
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from the apparent position of the sun just above the hori 
ng, in the same place—that the trees and cliffs are 
: The whole scene, as I saw it in August of last year, is ve 
getting up early or for the trouble of going to Bre 
when, as in my: case, there is left an i ; 
( nd it, 
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being able to un 
