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of the present condition of the country even after a succession of 
favourable seasons. As a valuable auxiliary to irrigating canals 
it would be well to take into consideration the storage lakes which, 
at little expense for low dams, could be constructed along the banks 
of the different rivers, and of which Lake Cudgellico offers an 
texample. Herea large sheet of water, formed by the over- 
flow of the Lachlan River, is retained by a low dam ; and, judgi 
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of canalization, unless the present mad race to alienate the public 
mnprovements to the public, it would be preferable to stop land 
sales altogether, and instead to issue long leases for unoccupied 
the same time introducing a sturdy class of labourers on 
where cultivation was practicable, on condition that _ 
ee 
esert lik unto the Colorado on the 
id yet owing to the irrigation 
division of the large 
from 20 to 100 acres, the 
Supported a happy, thrifty and rapidly increasing population. 
