BG: + NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 
grass does not grow, but instead we find different kinds of sa 
such as grow on ordinary salt-bush plains. The islands seer 
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tanks ; as if a tank is made in any part of the cane swamp all it 
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undrinkable ; but this is a drawback which affects more 
all tanks in the Darling country, and the only remedy is #] 
vent the stock from going into the tanks at all. : 
I had an opportunity when I was out there of exami 
tanks that had just been excavated in cane swamps and whi 
not been filled with water, so that I could see what the 
making inquiries among the people who have been sinking 
in such places, I was told that t ey never find anything 
: stones or gra 
What makes this fact remarkable is that though the cane *" 
epressic ns 
slowly silted up, and though there does not seem to be # 
‘Sufficient impetus to carry j d grav 
scattered over the present ee ee ee 
to me to be ordinary trap rock, i] yuna, ~ tie 
