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KOIIBTD APFETITR TK SHEKl*. 



the Murrumbitlgee river) Mr. Warby, who Ims 

 a fci« fem-«k ttet place, suflfe^M such loEsm 

 among ^oekt &im llni tmm^ 1M% }m ma 



obligvd to sell those tliat remaineil ; yet at 

 Brungnl, a station about L'i<ilit miks distant, 

 near the Tumat river, there was a small Hock of 

 sheep which had not ahqwn any of this morbid 

 ^P^% and weie in m^<^t tm6^^m* 



04tMtfeigMr. Warby 's farm, the wlu&iahad 

 the appearance of being excellent pasturage, 

 and affording excellent Blleep-r^n^; ; bnt about 

 the pastures there were several pools of brackish 



wMeh it wajs ftufid at last impossible to lieep 



them. 



At this place again, altliongb so destructive 

 to breeding-eweSj rams, wethers, and ewes, not 

 Ibfteed^nf ^ Wo^ald' fetl^ ^ mi '^mm iti ihe fe^t 

 condition, tLpQH the same pasttifag^. 



Tlie sheep at these places eagerly devour the 

 Azolla pmnaia, which grows abundantly in the 

 whole of the ponds and rivulets. 



At Ghmhrigby I r^iimAed i^t the cattle 

 alber they had bean ttutied out ai&i^W^'*^^^ 

 invariably came licking the ground about tlie 

 huts. After some doidit as to tlie cause, it was 

 found that the water in which salt-meat had 

 be^ bott<id» away Edjotiithat place j 



