WATER STORAGE AND CANALIZATION. 328 
by the experience of ages, which I earnest] 
: & trust ma 
meet with your approval, but may engage stab hearty abet ce 
agi — effect. Asa preface it is necessary to consider the 
aaa y é . of New South Wales, which has peculiarities not to 
et with in the old world. For instance, the coast district, 
of 7 Be ee 
ee and irrigating canalization. The principal rivers on 
. ank of the dividing range, falling into the Pacific 
“Se gl ome . - the following lengths :—The Hawkesbury, 
River, 360 e Nepean and Wolondilly, 330 miles; the Hunter 
, miles ; the Shoalhaven, 260 miles ; the Clarence, 240 
iles ; an 
Sea bars. 
to | oe to all the larger rivers are more OF less dangerous 
pping, owing to their shifting bars, so that any inland 
this danger should commend 
Having travelled but little on the 
ity for collecting informa- 
a t suggest is the 
ort Stephens, whilst a short railway 
k joini + port 
be carried out for a sum 
he high prices township 
command at the terminus of the navigation in Port 
