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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

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

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