. Australia and New Zealand. Natural history; Natural history. 306 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TKAVEL the southern portion of the colony, there are no rivers of importance in South Australia ; the Gawler, Torrens, and other streams that flow into St. Vincent's Gulf being very insignificant, and almost or quite dry for a large portion of the year. None of the Australian colonies have so many large lakes as South Australia; but, unfortunately, none of these seem calculated to benefit the country, being either. CURRENCY CREKK, LAKE ALEXANDRINA, ON THE RIVER MURRAY. salt, or liable to be dried up,
. Australia and New Zealand. Natural history; Natural history. 306 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TKAVEL the southern portion of the colony, there are no rivers of importance in South Australia ; the Gawler, Torrens, and other streams that flow into St. Vincent's Gulf being very insignificant, and almost or quite dry for a large portion of the year. None of the Australian colonies have so many large lakes as South Australia; but, unfortunately, none of these seem calculated to benefit the country, being either. CURRENCY CREKK, LAKE ALEXANDRINA, ON THE RIVER MURRAY. salt, or liable to be dried up, or unfitted for navi- Lake Torrens, running north and soutli in a line with Spencer's Gulf, with which it is almost connected by a chain of small lakes, is 130 miles long, and for the greater part of its length 20 miles wide, yet sometimes the water almost en- tirely disappears and it becomes a huge muddy swamp. Lake Gairdner, about 100 miles to the south-west, is about 100 miles long by 40 wide, with prolonga- tions towards the north-west, and numerous small lakesfctea,] He lees:. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913. London E. Stanford
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