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WHEN Sturt discovered the Darling River he left the following notes, for which I am indebted to Mr. Charles Daley, secretary of the Historical Society: 1. “The channel of the river was from 70 to 80 yards broad, and enclosed an unbroken sheet of water evidently very deep, and literally covered with pelicans and other wild fowl.” 2. “Yet as I stood upon its bank at sunset, when not a breath of air existed to break the stillness of the water below me and saw the surface kept in constant agitation by the leaping of fish I doubted whether the river could supply itself so abundantly.”
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BARRETT, J. Symbiosis of Men and Animals. Nature 148, 630 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148630b0
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