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wind, which was still blowing, gained strength ; and it is recorded 
_ that on the evening of the 6th, scud began to come in with the 
N.E. wind ; and at 8.30,a.m. of the 7th it began to rain. It is 
therefore evident that the N.W. monsoon, which attains its 
greatest force about the beginning of February, was forcing its 
way right across the continent to New South Wales, and in con- 
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Bourke, it began at 6 a.m. on the 6th; and at Eversleigh, near 
Armidale, another 150 miles, it began at 4 p.m. So that the rain 
advanced at the rate of 12 miles per hour throughout the 340 miles, 
and this, be it remembered, against a steady opposing wind. You 
will see on reference to the map that the line of progress was 
SE. from Thargomindah to Bourke, then it appears to have been 
checked until it got to the valley of the Macquarie, when it resumed 
the §.E. direction to Coonamble, and thence turned to E.N.E. We 
_ S0heayy at any other station. Looking at the stations which had 
heavy rain, they seem to be arranged in a great curve, asif it were 
character, but formed 
current then blowing over the greater 
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