The history of Australian exploration from 1788 to 1888Compiled from state documents, private papers and the most authentic sources of informationIssued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies . e is entered on. It would bewearisome to enumerate them all, the fact of their existence isso well-known in these days. To fairly see what would be the result of bringing a littleof the great sea of hidden waters to the surface, let us take aninstance of one of the tributaries of that great artery of Aus-tralia, the Darling. The head waters of the Warrego rise inlatitude 24 deg
The history of Australian exploration from 1788 to 1888Compiled from state documents, private papers and the most authentic sources of informationIssued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies . e is entered on. It would bewearisome to enumerate them all, the fact of their existence isso well-known in these days. To fairly see what would be the result of bringing a littleof the great sea of hidden waters to the surface, let us take aninstance of one of the tributaries of that great artery of Aus-tralia, the Darling. The head waters of the Warrego rise inlatitude 24 deg., and at its very head, within almost a stonesthrow, are large springs, that find their way down the range intothe lowest river. Thence, through coastal lands, to the easternsea board. Now had these springs broken out on the higherlevel of the Warrego watershed, their waters would havebenefited hundreds of miles of some of the fairest country inAustralia, that now suffers under constant drought. The preserving and regulating of their waters, after guidingthem into the channels prepared by Nature, would be an after-work greatly assisted by the varied formation of the countrythrough which their courses would
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