172 TANKS AND WELLS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
the rivers afford a gravitation supply: these periods should also 
Branch channels 
only for the benefit of the adjoining lands, but also as reservoirs to 
make good the loss from various causes in the overflows, &e. 
the sinuous course of these creeks through a comparatively level 
cv giving a much lesser fall than that of the country on 
eral of flow. Much could be done in this direction 
by judiciously “mone works—done, too, with a very moderate 
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would greatly increase the value of the Crown Lands and the rents 
that ought to be derived from them ; and when, later on, they were 
connected with a more perfect scheme, they would be as valuable 
to the agriculturist as in their earlier stages they were to the sheep- 
exists fo § prompt measures to reserve fro e all 
lands adjacent to them, that, under normal conditions, can only 
util , but that would be valuable for agric 
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should also be adopted under similar conditions of settlement 0? 
all belts of country where, without survey, there is i 
reason to think they can be brought within the scope of any 
ne red not This ‘cores will be necesiaey of 
at hat, proved areas, or the areas proposed for improv 
ment, being alienated for purely pastoral perpen and to ensure 
