170 TANKS AND WELLS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
see the incalculable advantages that would accrue from utilizing it 
look on and abuse Nature rather than exert the powers they possess 
and assist her to assist them. 
The conditions surrounding this problem in this country are 
Southern Europe ; there a teeming population made it necessary 
that increased and certain returns should be obtained from the 
soil, and there as soon as the facilities for obtaining water were 
afforded they were immediately taken advantage of, and thus, 
that form the great staple of life. In this country, instead of 
aving a large population settled on the soil requiring the assist- 
ance offered by such works to meet their wants, we have an 
quantities of water required for crops cannot be locally conserveé 
in the flat country, while to obtain it from distant sources means 
Proposed, more particularly the a can ever carry much 
~ sides pastoral produce. Whether railways through these dist- 
victs will pay under such conditions remained to be proved ; but. 
