284 ON WELLS IN LIVERPOOL PLAINS. 
only 12 feet distant, water, excellent in quality and 
supply, was obtained at 33 feet. 
Bando head-station, and situated on the side of the same 
range of mountains, there are two remarkable springs called Tam- 
bar. springs are about 100 yards apart, 4 miles from’ 
the plain, and elevated above it somewhere over 200 feet. In one 
65 feet, brackish, limited, and unfit for human use. In thesecond, 
limited in 
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dry and stony-looking spot, and flows across the main road from 
flows from the surface. 
At Bomera head-station there is a well, not numbered on the 
plan, only 6 feet deep, where the water almost always remains 
level with the surface, and the supply is practically mexhausub 
This well is distant about 12 miles in a south- esterly direction 
from Tambar, and is situated in a sandstone formation on @ slope 
about 200 yards from a creek, the bed of which is 40 feet lower 
than the water in the well, and this creek is frequently ed 
Some of the land in the vicinity has been cleared, but very 0 
sapped. It appears to me to be similar in character gee 
at Tambar, and the fountain-head must, as in the other case, of 
i : To the north-west 
Garrawilla head- 
enormous quantity of 9,600 gallons per hour. I rod phe 
spring where it makes its first appearance, and ‘was £100 acres, 
find the ground quite hollow for a space of ——- 2 ashi 
and upon listening attentively one could hear the so to be large 
water under foot. In many places there hapy te a 
3 or 4 feet from the surface. A large : washing 
below this spring, and one of the most extensive Sy power : 
establishments in the Colony is supplied with water PY I” fe 
