In a few hours it had been converted into a noble river, and had risen more than five feet above its recent level.

It was now pouring along its muddy waters with foaming impetuosity, and carrying away everything before it.

Whence, it may be asked, come these floods?
and was it from the same cause that the Murray, as Tenbury stated, rose so suddenly?
Such were the questions that occurred to me.

From the natives I could gather nothing satisfactory.

We were at this time between three and four hundred miles from the sources of the Darling, and I could hardly think that this fresh had come from such a distance.