58 : NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING, 
‘opened for it. I should think that the cheapest method of 
this would be by means of tube wells, which could be forced 
g, near Louth, I saw a 
At a station which I was inspectin pe 
ing salt water from a well 
curious effect. produced by mixin 
tho 
from the well with it, 
water in the tank had become almost quite clear, having aps 
a thick sediment at the bottom, and was free from any 
smell, and on tasting I could just detect the saltness of 1 
water. The proportion in the mixture was not, I should 
more than one of salt, water to twenty of muddy, and the 
of gets re was not capable of holding in suspension ba 
From Louth I returned to Bourk af iding ¥ 
oa e, and, after prov. 
ith fresh horses, started out into the dry country situated 
the Darling, Lachlan, ivers. There is a large 
country almost enclosed by these three rivers, over 2¥ 
