摘要：The Willandra Billabong, which in moderately wet seasons relieves the Middle Lachlan of some superfluous water, and in epoch-marking flood-times reluctantly debouches into the Lower Darling, divides the country between those rivers into two unequal parts. Roughly speaking ¨C the black-soil plains (which are chiefly light red) lie to the south of this almost imperceptible depression, whilst on the north ¨C sometimes close by, sometimes out of sight, and sometimes thirty miles away ¨C the irregular scrub frontier denotes an abrupt change of soil, though the uniform level is maintained. 'Here you enter upon a region presenting to the rarely clouded sky an unbroken foliage-surface, with isothermal zones rigidly marked by their indigenous growths. A tract of country until yesterday bare of surface water for lack of occupation, and lacking occupation for dearth of surface water. Which goes to show that regularity of rainfall is not ensured by copious growth of timber. 'However, a hundred miles back in that leafy solitude ¨C just where the line of water conservation, creeping northward from the Lachlan, here and there touched the line creeping southward from the Darling ¨C [you can stand on] ¡ the veranda of the barracks, [of] Goolumbulla station
