DARLING  , a See also:

• RIVER

river of See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia . It rises in See also:

• QUEENSLAND

Queensland and flows into New See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

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

Bourke to its junction on the Victorian border with the river See also:

• MURRAY
• MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
• MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
• MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
• MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
• MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
• MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
• MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
• MURRAY, JOHN
• MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
• MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
• MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
• MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
• MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )

Murray, it is called the Darling . Its length is 116o m., and with its affluents it drains an See also:

• AREA

area of about 200,000 sq. m . During the dry See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season its course is marked by a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of shallow pools, but during the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter, when it is subject to sudden floods, it is navigable as far as Bourke for steamers of See also:

• LIGHT

light draft . Excepting a narrow See also:

• STRIP

strip on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the river, the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country through which it passes is, for the most See also:

• PART

part, an arid See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain .