NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING, 69 
I saw a series of dams, by which the water was thrown back for 
any miles, and as far as I could learn there was no escape 
of water through the banks in any part; and it is the same in all 
the other tributaries of the Darling where I have seen or heard 
ing made. To one who has been used to the v 
‘Scenery of an undulating or mountainous country, the terrible 
sameness of everything in the interior of the Colony is almost 
i Trees, rivers, and plains are all exactly the same for 
hundreds of miles, and everything about the rivers, after getting 
away from the Great Dividing Range and well into the interior, 
is different from what one would expect from a knowledge of the 
rivers of any other great drainage system ; and the difference is, 
as I said before, that here the rivers have neither made nor modi- 
fied the country. 
each other ; and if they did, the facts are scattered in so many 
hands that the first and most important work must be to collect 
and place them on record. 
Since writing this paper I received from Mr. John Todd, 
who was lately residing at the Cato, near Brewarrina, an account 
gs 
Australia, not far from the coast. The information is of so much 
importance, and seems to bear so directly on the question at issue, 
that I give it in Mr. Todd’s own words :— : 
“ Regarding the information you asked me for. The station that 
Thad in South Australia was distant about 25 miles from Guichen 
Bay and a little further from Rivoli Bay. There was @ coast 
springs exist, which when opened up keep a constant 
= Pply of water for stock. Then, on the coast side of the range 
i i o of which the water comes 
hese also strong spri , in 
bubbling up shock” 2 feet “high, which shows there must be @ 
