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Water in Australia

Nature volume 24, pages 30–31 (1881)Cite this article

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A GENTLEMAN recently returned from Australia believes that the arid plain which occupies the centre of that island-continent might be amply supplied with water and converted into rich farm land by a very simple process. He founds his belief upon observed facts in the three sciences of botany, physiography, and geology, thus:—

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MOTT, F. Water in Australia. Nature 24, 30–31 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024030c0

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