ON WELLS IN LIVERPOOL PLAINS. 289 
16 inches in diameter could be made (and at one-tenth the cost) 
which would supply the place of any of the large wells. In most 
good wells the water shows a tendency to rise to the surface, and 
in some cases does actually rise and flow over. If wells were bored 
and tubed so that the water if it did rise could not escape through 
layers of sand or the fissures in the various strata, the chances of 
ving flowing wells would be considerably inereased. At a any 
rate, in attempting to solve the problem “ Where does our rainfall 
go?” boring machines must be called into requisition, and it may 
happen, when. our store of general knowledge has been added to by 
information similar to that which I have endeavoured to place 
before this sa cep to-night, collected from all parts of the colony, 
the vast interior plains about the Darling may be rendered as pr 
fitable and productive as any other of the more favoured portions 
of this great land. Lieutenant Maury, in his celebrated work on 
“Oceanic Currents,” begins with the startling sentence “ There is 
ariver in the ocean.” It may fall to the lot of some member of 
in the earth,” and, with the assistance of those who are in a 
tion to render it, to indicate their locality, the depth at which sng 
may be found, suk how rendered serviceable to mankind. 
Postscript. rican map which accompanies this paper has_been 
Prepared by is. Gad ein , Licensed Surveyor, msg A. P. D. = Mtevomd 
Land Agent ; $ ie sine may therefore be relied u 
