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DARLING

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARLING , a See also:

river of See also:Australia. It rises in See also:Queensland and flows into New See also:South See also:Wales, forming for a considerable distance the boundary of the two colonies ; in its upper reaches it is known as the Barwon, but from See also:Bourke to its junction on the Victorian border with the river See also:Murray, it is called the Darling. Its length is 116o m., and with its affluents it drains an See also:area of about 200,000 sq. m. During the dry See also:season its course is marked by a See also:series of shallow pools, but during the See also:winter, when it is subject to sudden floods, it is navigable as far as Bourke for steamers of See also:light draft. Excepting a narrow See also:strip on the See also:banks of the river, the See also:country through which it passes is, for the most See also:part, an arid See also:plain.

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