Australia in Its Physiographic And Economic Aspects
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the Edward), and a local flood in the Murray may cause the water to flow up these billabongs for manj' miles. Wagga, Narandera, and Hay on the Murrumbidgee, Jerilderie, Deniliquin, and Moulamein on the billabongs, are all towns chiefly devoted to wool, though wheat is largely grown in the eastern districts of the Riverina. THE CENTRAL LOWLANDS 93 The Tertiary Area of the Murray-Darling Basin. The third subdivision of the Murray-Darling area is the large extent of tertiary deposits which fill up... the gulf into which the Darling, Murrumbidgee, and Murray once flowed by separate mouths. Except in the south-east this region is very dry, and settlements occur only along the Murray River, which plays the part of the Nile. Below Echuca this river is navigable at all seasons, but few towns of importance lie on its banks. Mildura in Victoria, near the junction of the Murray and Darling, is an irrigation colony where over a million has been spent on clearing land, pumping, &c. Wentworth is advantageously situated at the junction of two big rivers, and is an important river port whence wool is shipped to the railway at Morgan in South Australia.
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