NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 59 
space on the maps of the Colony. The country seems to rise with 
a very gradual slope from the Darling, at Bourke, in a southerly 
direction towards the Lachlan for about 150 miles, to near Gill- 
ia, and all the water up to that point goes in the direction of 
the Darling, but there are no water-courses marked on the maps 
the direction of all the three rivers named—this being, as it were, 
the centre of dispersion. The gullies coming out from the moun- 
I 
an opportunity of examining them, to be composed of trap. 
Springs are to be found in some pl g the mountains, but 
as they seem to be only the result of local drainage they are not 
of much importance except to the owners, ere is a creek calle 
defined 
— on the maps of the Colony, nor even on the run maps ©! 
e Occupation Office, which rises at Mothumbil, about 30 miles 
pass down it, but except in flood-time there is no water apparent 
in the channel. By digging in the coarse sand with which it is 
which the creek passes are watered. All along Sandy (or Crowl 
- - it 1s called in some places), which has not been made a 
: ntage in laying out the runs, the lessees seem to know 
ae i into the Mallee country 
and isappeared, some that it spread out over the level land and 
Darling 
Lae y . : from 
3 3 but I did not meet with —— ae — 
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